While I can't be precise about the relative timings, I can tell you
that there's a much shorter route from 46th and Hazel or 46th and
Regents to the Airport: drive out to 49th Street, proceed down 49th
Street into Lindbergh Boulevard, out on Lindbergh Boulevard, left at
Island Avenue, right at 291W. I suspect the timings are similar, and
I've never been caught in traffic on Lindbergh Ave.
Elliot
On 30 Nov 2004, at 11:27, Matthew Snyder wrote:
Stephen Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It turns out it's only $15 to go from my house in University
City (46th @ Regents) to the airport.
I've taken metered rides from the airport to my house on the war-torn
4600 block of Hazel many times over the past five years (I always have
to ask for the meter but I've never had a cabbie give me a hard time
about it), and I think the most I've ever saved is about $1.50. One
time it actually cost me more to take a metered trip when we got stuck
in traffic on 76.
It's been a long time since I've been in a cab, but it used to be that
many cabs had a photocopied map of center city taped to the plastic
divider. The map showed the boundaries of what qualified for the $20
ride from the airport. It may even have been a requirement that it be
posted in every cab.
(The last time I was in a cab, the driver had one of those hacked
meters that increments too quickly, when he jiggles something under
the steering wheel or whatever. I was so shocked at how brazen he was
in using it that I temporarily swore off cabs.)
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Matthew Snyder
Philadelphia, PA
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