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Old March 7th 18, 02:20 PM posted to uk.transport.london
David Cantrell David Cantrell is offline
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Default Taxi fares in Norwich

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 03:32:56AM -0800, Offramp wrote:

If we had a similar thing in London, with hackneys charging =C2=A37 instead=
of that baffling logarithmic Huskisson scale that they currently use, they=
might get more custom.


They might get more custom too if they actually knew where they were
going and could read road signs.

The middle bit of Quaker Street has been closed for ages for some
building work, but there's always black cabs going too far along it,
past the last turning off, and having to turn round and go back. I saw
two within a minute this morning. Strangely none of the Ubers I've taken
recently has made this foolish error.

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