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If you’re arriving at an airport or other high traffic area, you will almost always get a better price and timelier service by simply jumping in a standard taxi
by grej 4y ago
If you’re arriving at an airport or other high traffic area, you will almost always get a better price and timelier service by simply jumping in a standard taxi. I’d say this has been the case for at least 6-9 months.
- rzz3 4y agoThat may be true, but I’d much rather ride in an Uber or Lyft with less timely service and a higher price, than in a nasty yellow Crown Victoria from the dawn of time itself, with that ugly, rough, stained interior that smells like cigarettes and vomit. Taxis don’t even offer phone chargers or water. IMO, Taxis would have long since died as an industry if it weren’t for governments propping them up artificially.
- ghaff 4y agoThat's not at all my experience in Raleigh in particular. Walk to the cab line, get in, pay with card. No fussing around with an app and waiting.
- largbae 4y agoThat works when you are at the first point in your trip. Now get that taxi to show up in a timely manner at your house or the house of someone you visit.
- ghaff 4y agoI do usually use Lyft for the return. But I'd have no trouble using a cab or some car the hotel has contracted with for going back to the airport.
- missedthecue 4y agoBy "fussing with an app" you mean about three clicks?
- ghaff 4y agoInvariably there's some wait which I don't want. Business travellers basically want zero friction.
- seunosewa 4y agoThey'd still exist because there is a demand for the service. Someone would satisfy the demand.
- adrr 4y agoThe last Uber I rode in was a beat up Prius that smelled like pee. Uber has lowered their standards.
- jeffbee 4y agoI would ride in a professionally-serviced Crown Victoria over a Prius with bald tires, obviously ruined steering joints, and no windshield wipers, which is a true and faithful description of the last Uber I suffered.
- trimbo 4y agoLast time I tried taking an Uber from SFO to SF, the quoted price was $150. Taxi downstairs was $40 and was waiting for me to get in. Didn’t smell like vomit. But if it did, I’d roll down the window and remember I’m saving $110 for a 20 minute ride.
- ham-sandwich 4y agoThat’s lovely but what if you live somewhere like KCMO or Columbus that doesn’t have established cab infrastructure and does have a ton of Uber drivers?
- alkonaut 4y agoA taxi for me is a maximum 1-2 years old black typically German car summoned and paid in an app. If your taxi is a monopoly using old cars, where card readers are “broken” and who don’t have apps - it’s your taxi that is broken, not the concept of taxi. Many US and European cities have bad taxis, but many also have good taxis.
- ww520 4y agoThe airport taxi hates short hop ride. The taxi drivers got visibly frustrated and angry after hearing my destination is not long distance. I just get a Uber/Lyft to avoid the airport cartel.
- mjcohen 4y agoWe live 10 minutes from LAX. Taxi drivers get somewhat annoyed, but we give them $20 and that seems to make them feel better. Also, we have a favorite taxi company we use to get to LAX. We make reservations a few days in advance, and they have always showed up on schedule.
- throwoutway 4y agoMy coworker got yelled at by a taxi driver recently at DCA airport for this.
- brokenodometer 4y agoWhich is dumb because DCA is like 10 minutes from downtown, so I’m not sure why they would expect most travelers to be headed to the suburbs.
- missedthecue 4y agoWell plenty of fliers will live in the DC suburbs. Only the visitors will be going downtown.
- debaserab2 4y agoDepends on the airport. Cab services in some cities are very poor.