fares

It stops people sitting there and just refusing all fares whilst still collecting the minimum wage, but also serves to make drivers accept all fares.

I don't have figures handy, but airline fares (adjusting for inflation) are much, much lower today than when the government set routes, schedules and fares.

After deregulation, when airlines were free to set routes, schedules and fares, the flights are nearly always packed.

This is voided if you don't pick up something like 90% of your offered fares in a given hour.

The cheapest advance fares from Carlisle to London are £24 each way; the most expensive open single is £239.

Taxicabs, in particular, produce a lot of congestion since they're always stopping to pick up/drop off fares.

Due to the nature of Apple Pay, it is literally impossible for TFL to match the fares.

Thus, about half of our fares plus tips go to paying for the taxi with medallion, before paying for gas.

But if all fares cost the same amount, why risk it in a sketchier neighborhood?

Does Uber require drivers to pickup specific fares (i.e., do they assign a driver to a fare in a poor neighborhood?).

It doesn't make sense for rail operators to offer cheap fares on trains that will be filled at a higher price.

In theory, areas with demand but no drivers will go into surge mode, encouraging more drivers to pickup fares in that area.

From the recently posted article about Uber: > "Using Uber requires having a credit card, the lack of which, for many residents of the Bronx, one green-taxi driver once told me, made getting fares there very hard." What does that mean?

I suspect he'd have learned more about the "sharing economy" by asking to people actually driving for a living about how they decide between surge pricing fares and desperate need to sleep, but at least it's moved him to share his hard-earned insight that life can be difficult for people in America that don't drive...

Old saying is "If it ain't tested, is is broken." Old corollary: "If it is tested, it might still be broken." And: "If it is a backup, it might still be broken." Seems like a good idea to occasionally spend the time and totally fill a sparkley clean image with your backups and see how well it fares.

Fares are much cheaper outside of the bay area.