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[email protected] · March 7th 18, 10:47 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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"Roland Perry" wrote in message
news In message , at 10:36:14 on Wed,
7 Mar 2018, Clive Page remarked:

A £5 fare would be (at 20mph) 2.6 miles, £20 11.5 miles. That's a
stupendous amount of "getting lost"

Is Uber any good?

I've not been encouraged by their website. For a journey that we do
occasionally by taxi from our local station to home, it shows a range
of fares from £4 to £16 (a black cab typically costs £5.50).

Once you get outside metropolitan areas the cost per mile is a
killer. Even a short-ish trip to an airport (let's say 50 miles) is
grossly uncompetitive with local minicabs.

I've just got a quote for central Brighton to Gatwick Airport (around
30 miles) that compares reasonably well with a turn up and go fare in
a minicab. Wise travellers to an airport use a pre-booked specialist
airport car service, but I once had to grab a cab off the rank at
Brighton station when I arrived to find the rail service to be in
tits up mode.

You could of course just get a direct train from Brighton to
Gatwick Airport!

Only if such a train is available.

If you're travelling at times when there are no trains (0010 to 0510) taxi
fares tend to attract premium rates.

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Colin Rosenstiel

Someone Somewhere · March 8th 18, 06:52 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 07/03/2018 23:47, wrote:
In article , (D A Stocks)
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You could of course just get a direct train from Brighton to
Gatwick Airport!

Only if such a train is available.

If you're travelling at times when there are no trains (0010 to 0510) taxi
fares tend to attract premium rates.

Those aren't the only times there were no traiins - large chunks of 2017
had a similar problem...

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