RE: [UC] taxi overcharging from airport

[Turner,Kathleen]

Title: RE: [UC] taxi overcharging from airport

Definitely the fastest route, but surprising how few cab drivers know it.  A few years ago I had to get to the airport in a hurry -- the driver headed down University Ave. to take 76, and the #$%#^# bridge was up.  I really had to argue with him to get him to turn around and head down Woodland Avenue.  He had no idea that there was any other way to get to the airport . . .

Kathleen

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Sent: 11/30/2004 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [UC] taxi overcharging from airport

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.)
> --
> Matthew Snyder
> Philadelphia, PA
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