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Woking to Heathrow
In message , at 17:16:08 on Wed, 7 Mar
2018, D A Stocks 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. It's not as different as I expected for a trip to Stansted (~1hr on the road) where I've got an estimate of £75 from Uber, and a fixed fare of £55 from a local minicab firm. That exercise has also reminded me of what my apparent confusion was regarding Uber fares being fixed or variable. I took their site to mean that "we estimate your fixed fare, should you wish to book at the moment, will be £75". On a different day, different time, I'd have expected a different such estimate[1], but I (naively it seems) expected the fare quoted when I booked to be honoured (like it is for minicab firms who are off their Local-Authority meter). [1] Or, as every time I've actually tried taking my mystery shopping to the next stage, a "no bid". -- Roland Perry |
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