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Azzlandia said:
I've also seen patrons having the door shut on them in Sydney's CBD after saying they needed to go to somewhere like Glebe or Pyrmont.
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nbaman1 said:
I have to tell them some location closer to where we are or get a female friend to hail and talk to the cab just to get home sometimes.
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Wait, people don't just get in a vacant cab and shut the door before telling the driver the destination?

Bunk Moreland said:
Enjoy it while it lasts lads. Taxi lobbying will get rid of it and/or price it to the same price.
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I think general overheads and drivers just wanting to earn more will bump the price up before taxi lobbying would.
 
checkraiseulite said:
offended taxi drivers itt.
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Rough_Edges said:
Damon_3388

living in the burbs atm and don't get uber's out there yet.

wondering if you or one of your taxi mates could drive me to the airport next week?

let me know
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Damon_3388 said:
Wait, people don't just get in a vacant cab and shut the door before telling the driver the destination?
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Often in Sydney/Melbourne the cab driver will have the door locked and won't open it till you tell him a destination... I believe it's illegal for a taxi driver to refuse a fair based on the grounds of where the person is going.
 

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The Passenger said:
Often in Sydney/Melbourne the cab driver will have the door locked and won't open it till you tell him a destination... I believe it's illegal for a taxi driver to refuse a fair based on the grounds of where the person is going.
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Yes, but it's not illegal for an uber driver to do so. They're also not required to have a certain number of Access cabs, etc. If Uber destroys the regulated taxi industry, then those loss-making features will also go.
 
The Passenger said:
Often in Sydney/Melbourne the cab driver will have the door locked and won't open it till you tell him a destination... I believe it's illegal for a taxi driver to refuse a fair based on the grounds of where the person is going.
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Fair enough. Personally I've never experienced that, and have never been turned down or had to really "convince" a taxi driver to take me anywhere, at any time. Usually it's almost "automatic", just get in and away you go, no worries.

I can only really go on my own experiences, but it really seems like from things people are saying in this thread, getting a ride in a taxi is different in Adelaide to other states. Would like to see some more Adelaide people share their experiences with cabs here, because personally I've never had a problem, night or day, drunk or sober, living close to the city or far away.
 
Damon_3388 said:
Fair enough. Personally I've never experienced that, and have never been turned down or had to really "convince" a taxi driver to take me anywhere, at any time. Usually it's almost "automatic", just get in and away you go, no worries.

I can only really go on my own experiences, but it really seems like from things people are saying in this thread, getting a ride in a taxi is different in Adelaide to other states. Would like to see some more Adelaide people share their experiences with cabs here, because personally I've never had a problem, night or day, drunk or sober, living close to the city or far away.
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Sydney and Melbourne are no the friendliest cities in the world (particularly Sydney)... This feeling only gets magnified once the sun goes down and the populations alcohol consumption goes up. But they are hardly the only big cities in the world to have these sorts of issues.
 
The Passenger said:
Often in Sydney/Melbourne the cab driver will have the door locked and won't open it till you tell him a destination... I believe it's illegal for a taxi driver to refuse a fair based on the grounds of where the person is going.
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this x 1000.

when i lived in south/port melbourne and wanted a cab from the city/casino some nights you would need to try five cabs before you would get let in.

the cab drivers were also always on their mobiles, would barely greet you and conveniently the paypass machine in their cabs would never work.

have never had a problem with uber and short trips, and for a more efficient and friendly, and in my view safer, service for a slightly lower cost it's basically a no brainer.

the email you get afterwards is also a very good feature, in that you can view the route you took and ensure you weren't ripped off.
 
Damon_3388 said:
Fair enough. Personally I've never experienced that, and have never been turned down or had to really "convince" a taxi driver to take me anywhere, at any time. Usually it's almost "automatic", just get in and away you go, no worries.

I can only really go on my own experiences, but it really seems like from things people are saying in this thread, getting a ride in a taxi is different in Adelaide to other states. Would like to see some more Adelaide people share their experiences with cabs here, because personally I've never had a problem, night or day, drunk or sober, living close to the city or far away.
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I'm also in Adelaide and have never had an issue. Perhaps cabs in other states are terrible experiences, but I took an Uber twice and have never bothered again.
 
MarcusP2 said:
I'm also in Adelaide and have never had an issue. Perhaps cabs in other states are terrible experiences, but I took an Uber twice and have never bothered again.
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I was thinking this, a cab from the city to my place is $20 including tip, the drivers are polite, and friendly, I'm not sure why I would use Uber.
 
I guess Adelaide would be pretty easy to drive a taxi as everything is within half an hour of everything else, ergo not hard for a taxi driver to do an outer 'burb dropoff and head quickly back to the casino, or Heaven (showing my age) or wherever else people get taxis from.
 

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I think it's testament to how s**t the current service is when you see how quickly the market has started shifting.

Taxi service refuses to recognise this and instead is just trying to get it outlawed.
 
It's interesting because ride sharing has been around on the internet for at least a decade and nothing was done about it... But then no money was changing hands...
 
Bunk Moreland said:
And that there is the problem with the taxi industry.

You have the companies to take and distribute bookings.

You have the drivers to do the jobs.

And in the middle for some reason, you have license owners, who contribute nothing to the process and do no work, they just sit back collecting money straight out of the pockets of passengers.

Somewhere along the line a taxi license became a paper commodity to be bought and sold, rather than just a license to do business.

That's why the industry is so expensive and inefficient, you have a dormant stakeholder who adds nothing and collects a royalty.
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The problem with Uber is that their aim is to supplant the existing taxi licence owner situation and become the monopoly provider themselves. Right now though it's a no brainer to use them over normal taxis.
 
clogged said:
The problem with Uber is that their aim is to supplant the existing taxi licence owner situation and become the monopoly provider themselves. Right now though it's a no brainer to use them over normal taxis.
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Unless you live in Adelaide where the drivers are gentlemen and give you free rides in golden taxis as we've learned.
 
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