London has a great bus network too, no times wasted in decending/asceding into/out of stations necessary. Only drawback is that if you don't have a rudimentary idea of the routes etc. it isn't so easy to navigate your way around.
I didn't mention ubers in my original post, just the black cab drivers that l encountered on my trip to London last weekend.
I've never used an uber in my life. would have no idea how to book one anyway.
I guess it could have been more a case of him knowing full well where l wanted to go was, but he jsut didn't fancy taking me there, either because it was in the wrong direction, or he would struggle to get a fare back.
Very wise l'd say if my experiences at the weekend were anything to go by! Jump on a bus or even take a tube, it'll certainly be better value and probably just as quick too with London traffic often clogged up nowadays.
Just back from a weekend in the smoke. Had the need to take several journeys by black cab whilst l was there, and almost to a man, every cab driver was a surly so and so, all saying as little as possible, and some were outright rude.
In the past whenever travelling anywhere by taxi the driver...