{"id":36332,"date":"2018-12-07T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=36332"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:51:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T09:51:48","slug":"rise-complaints-taxi-drivers-refuse-fares-cardiffians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/rise-complaints-taxi-drivers-refuse-fares-cardiffians","title":{"rendered":"Rise on complaints about taxi drivers who refuse fares to Cardiffians"},"content":{"rendered":"

People who live in the suburban areas of the capital of Wales express their fury to public taxi services who refuse fares for short distances within the Cardiff boundary.<\/h2>\n

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Cardiff residents\u2019 complaints about taxi services in the capital have been arisen lately with people saying that taxi drivers often refuse short- distance fares.<\/p>\n

Cardiffians, especially these who live in the suburban areas of the capital continuously express their discontent about hackney carriage services, mainly for fares from the city centre to the closest suburbs and the reverse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been on my own, 2am, and can\u2019t get a cab to take me as I\u2019m only 10 mins from city centre and a low fare. It\u2019s a disgrace\u201d,\u00a0\u00a0Dani B. tweeted,<\/a>after having experienced a denial from a taxi driver in Cardiff.<\/p>\n

People\u2019s posts on social media, especially on twitter, express their fury towards public taxi companies and drivers who refuse them a fare without reasonable excuse, because according to their complaints, public taxi operations prefer to serve people for longer distance fares.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve just tried to get a taxi home from town but both these, amongst others, have refused to take me because I only live In Splott. I\u2019m now walking, alone, in the dark. Absolutely ridiculous!\u201d,\u00a0wrote a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>young\u00a0<\/span><\/span>woman<\/span><\/span>, just a few months ago,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0who lives 10 minutes far away from the city\u00a0<\/span><\/span>centre<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bivin Mathew, who lives in Heath, with his wife reported an incident happened last Christmas saying: \u201cMy wife had to walk home to the Heath after her works do because taxis refused the short trip over to ours. This despite waiting in a rank for ages. She tried flagging several down who would stop, ask for address and then drive away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of people\u2019s grievances are especially about services during rugby and football match days in Cardiff, leading them ordering taxis who work for private companies, such as \u2018Uber\u2019, as \u201cdrivers normally don’t know the end destination till the pickup, so normally guaranteed rides.\u201d<\/p>\n

Private hire vehicle\u2019s company are in a high rise in the UK, as they are considered to be more reliable and they are mostly preferred by women especially during night hours.<\/p>\n

Many UK universities, such as Cardiff University have introduced the ‘safe taxi scheme<\/a>‘ for emergency cases, which allows students to call a private taxi company that co-operates with each university, have a ride without paying the fare at that point but instead, they can pay the fee in their student’s union after a couple of days.<\/p>\n

The scheme has been highly useful in many cases for international and non-local students, but as far as residents who do not study in Cardiff is concerned, then also private taxi companies seem as a dead-end.<\/p>\n

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