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To be pedantic black cabs are hackney carriages, which can ply for hire, whereas minicabs cannot. Both are taxis according to the generally understood definition of the word.
You’re right they’re generally a safer bet, albeit I’ve also had some rather bad experiences with black cabs (in a previous life I used them a fair bit for work). They’re also rather beyond the price range of your average Londoner, albeit Uber is often also ludicrously expensive and increasingly unreliable in my recent experience.
When might night tube reopen?
Anybody in the know heard any rumours about when the night tube might get back up and running ? Leisure travel has picked up much better than commuter travel, is has to be reaching close to pre-pandemic demands, judging by the crush on the last trains of the night on friday/saturday.
www.railforums.co.uk
[The above was in response to Taunton saying:
Clearly written by someone who never travelled on the Night Tube. The safe, low crime environment is surely a taxi.]
You [43066] are mixing up taxis with "mini-cabs" here. The latter can indeed often be dodgy. London licensed taxis very very rarely so. "Mini-cabs", private hire, Ubers, etc, are not taxis.
To be pedantic black cabs are hackney carriages, which can ply for hire, whereas minicabs cannot. Both are taxis according to the generally understood definition of the word.
You’re right they’re generally a safer bet, albeit I’ve also had some rather bad experiences with black cabs (in a previous life I used them a fair bit for work). They’re also rather beyond the price range of your average Londoner, albeit Uber is often also ludicrously expensive and increasingly unreliable in my recent experience.