Pat’s Point of View

4 Responses to “Warning: Canberra Cabs”  

1. 1 Lynda Kimber Jul 6th, 2007 at 11:49 am

   How right you are! However Canberra Hire Car and Limousine service is also owned by the same company that owns the taxi - so as you see it is in their best interests to provide a bad service and encourage the use of a more expensive service, which also benefit their organisation. The way to overcome all of these barriers, is to use an independant operator such as myself. We provide a reliable, puntual and energy efficient solution to your transport problems. We have invested in the latest Lexus Hybrid technology saving enormous amounts of toxic CO2 emmisions compared to other services available. We are currently the only providor or luxury lexus hybrid transport in and around the ACT and Snowy Mountains.

   We also provide Snow transfers reducing the carbon footprint our transport leaves behind in the pristine Snowy Mountains Wilderness environment.

   Please look us up - especially if you need transport in Canberra.

   Cheers from the Nations Capital

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   Director
   Brindabella Chauffeured Limousines.

2. 2 Pat Jul 6th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

   Fair enough, I’ll take the Pepsi challenge. Thanks Lynda.

3. 3 Skyring Jul 23rd, 2007 at 5:26 pm

   Lynda is obviously pushing her own barrow and is not being completely honest. Canberra Cabs doesn’t want to provide a poor service so that passengers will be pushed towards limousines - that is absolutely crap economics. For one thing, the cost of running a cab in Canberra is so huge that no owner is going to be able to afford to deliberately provide a poor service. Not with cab licences changing hands for well over a quarter of a million dollars.

   The truth is that there are only 270 cabs on the road. Maximum. For a city with about 300 000 residents and a lot of visitors, the cab system is easily overloaded at peak times. No matter how you cut it, there are going to be delays when there are more people wanting cabs than there are cabs. Often there will be two or three hundred people waiting at the airport, so that’s enough to tie up the whole cab service right there, quite apart from the rest of the city.

   Outside peak hours, you can usually get a cab immediately from a rank, or with a wait of between two and ten minutes if you book one over the phone.

4. 4 Pat Jul 23rd, 2007 at 6:08 pm

   I doubt anyone is deliberately providing bad service, however, if the same company who runs the cabs is also running a more expensive limo service, there’s an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to making efforts to improve the situation with the cabs.

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