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Taxis in Chicago used to be pretty great. Always around when you needed one, no wait, knew the city streets well. Nobody I knew complained about them.

tptacek 4y ago
They were great in the loop and more or less useless everywhere else.
- stcroixx 4y ago
  Nonsense. Near north side, Lincoln park, Gold Coast, all the way up to Rogers park and everywhere in between cabs were all plentiful. I took them regularly. Same on the west side all the way out to oak park. South side I don’t know, never went there on purpose unless you count Chinatown which is at a red line stop. South side has always been an island.
  - giraffe_lady 4y ago
    It sounds like they were fine if you were within a mile of the lake on the north side. I wonder what... else... is notable about that... area... but I just can't quite... put my finger on it.... South side isn't an island, it's half the city's land area and population. To the extent it's cut off from the rest of the city that's an intentional policy choice supported and justified by comments like yours.
    - stcroixx 3y ago
      Please continue to tell us what Uptown, Edgewater, and Rogers park are notable for? Dead bodies in dumpsters outside of your condo? Because that's what was in the dumpster outside mine. I worked for years at the Men's shelter in Uptown - I doubt this area is what you think it is.
      - tptacek 3y ago
        This is a weirdly aggro response. I lived in Uptown for a couple years. It's not "random dead bodies in dumpsters" territory. My apartment there was expensive.
  - tptacek 3y ago
    I lived for a bunch of years in Lakeview and hung around in Lincoln Park, Lincoln Square, and Rogers Park, and my experience trying to reliably get cabs in those neighborhoods was not great. I live in Oak Park. Cab to Oak Park? Fucking forget it.
kasey_junk 4y ago
You couldn’t get a taxi to pick you up on the south side at all. To do airport runs it was livery cars or nothing. That said I’m a Lyft customer to this day because when Uber started they geofenced the southside out.

tptacek 4y ago

They were great in the loop and more or less useless everywhere else.

stcroixx 4y ago
Nonsense. Near north side, Lincoln park, Gold Coast, all the way up to Rogers park and everywhere in between cabs were all plentiful. I took them regularly. Same on the west side all the way out to oak park. South side I don’t know, never went there on purpose unless you count Chinatown which is at a red line stop. South side has always been an island.
- giraffe_lady 4y ago
  It sounds like they were fine if you were within a mile of the lake on the north side. I wonder what... else... is notable about that... area... but I just can't quite... put my finger on it.... South side isn't an island, it's half the city's land area and population. To the extent it's cut off from the rest of the city that's an intentional policy choice supported and justified by comments like yours.
  - stcroixx 3y ago
    Please continue to tell us what Uptown, Edgewater, and Rogers park are notable for? Dead bodies in dumpsters outside of your condo? Because that's what was in the dumpster outside mine. I worked for years at the Men's shelter in Uptown - I doubt this area is what you think it is.
    - tptacek 3y ago
      This is a weirdly aggro response. I lived in Uptown for a couple years. It's not "random dead bodies in dumpsters" territory. My apartment there was expensive.
- tptacek 3y ago
  I lived for a bunch of years in Lakeview and hung around in Lincoln Park, Lincoln Square, and Rogers Park, and my experience trying to reliably get cabs in those neighborhoods was not great. I live in Oak Park. Cab to Oak Park? Fucking forget it.

kasey_junk 4y ago

You couldn’t get a taxi to pick you up on the south side at all. To do airport runs it was livery cars or nothing. That said I’m a Lyft customer to this day because when Uber started they geofenced the southside out.