{"id":8811,"date":"2015-11-23T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=8811"},"modified":"2015-11-23T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T15:45:11","slug":"taxi-drivers-and-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/taxi-drivers-and-international-students","title":{"rendered":"Taxi drivers and international students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>One big issue in Cardiff is how hard is to find a Taxi for short fares in the night, for some luckily the experience wasn`t always so bad.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9076\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Taxi-Intercardiff-640x3601.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9076 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Taxi-Intercardiff-640x3601.jpg\" alt=\"To find a taxi in the night it's not always easy.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9076 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Taxi-Intercardiff-640x3601.jpg\" alt=\"To find a taxi in the night it's not always easy.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> To find a taxi in the night is not always easy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Taxi drivers refused many times to pick up students \u00a0which needed to come back home in the night because the fares were too short.<\/p>\n<p>According to WalesOnline the chairwoman of the council\u2019s licensing committee said that the complaints reached almost one hundred during the past two \u00a0months.<\/p>\n<p>But not all international students think the same, comparing this situation to their own country. Pryianka Shankar explained her experience in Cardiff since she arrived in September: \u201cFor someone like me who comes from a country where it is not very safe to travel by taxi at night, I feel quite happy. Some of them are really nice, you can speak about anything with them during the trip. Once I hadn\u2019t enough money and I realised only at the end. I apologized but he said that it wasn&#8217;t a problem.The most important thing was that I could be back home safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One big issue in Cardiff is how hard is to find a Taxi for short fares in the night, for some luckily the experience wasn`t always so bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":9053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taxi drivers and international students - 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