Posted on 07/13/2022 5:12:40 PM PDT by lowbridge
Uber rides in New York City are getting uber expensive.
The average Uber trip costs more per mile in the Big Apple than any other US city, according to a new study shared with The Post.
Uber riders in the five boroughs have to shell out an average of $34.74 for a 6.2-mile ride, making New York the most expensive city to grab a ride in America, according to the study by NetCredit.
The study comes as Uber has hiked prices around the world, citing surging gas prices and a persistent driver shortage. New York also has a minimum wage for drivers and a congestion surcharge policy that likely contributes to high fares.
In response to Uber’s high prices, some New Yorkers are turning to yellow cabs — but there are fewer on the road than before the pandemic. The Taxi and Limousine Commission is also looking to raise taxi fares for airport rides.
After New York, Nashville comes in second at $34.63 for the same length trip, followed by Denver at $33.91, Seattle at $32.63 and Baltimore at $27.27.
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Friend spends about 3k per month transporting to and from work daily for safety.
Manhattan
effing pro abortion too. including Lyft. That’s why I take taxi cabs if needed.
“The average Uber trip costs more per mile in the Big Apple than any other US city,....”
As well it should.
Peeps in NYC shouldn’t be moving around, but just stay plugged into the matrix.
Nashville at #2 should have been the headline, not NYC at #1. Journalistic standards are abysmal.
Drivers aren’t seeing even half of that.
Maybe that’s why they claim a driver shortage.
A friend of mine lived in NYC back in the 90s with a job paying well into 6 figures.
He tried to live like he had in Texas.
When he returned his minimum credit card payment was more that I owed for everything I owed in total.
I spent a yr in NY. The subway takes you everywhere you need to go. I used a taxi maybe twice the whole time I was there.
A cabby has to earn. Chauffeured vehicles should be considered luxuries because they are. They are not the deserved spoils of petulant teens.
Kids, if you haven’t emancipated yourself yet beg your parents to drive you but expect to walk. I could suggest destinations.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/tlc/passengers/taxi-fare.page
Taxi is roughly $3 + $2.50/mile
I think the subway & bus fare was $2.75 when I was last in NYC.
$34 for six miles is about $17/hour for walking about two hours
In fact, Uber doesn't even really try to compete with taxi cabs in many parts of NYC. That's because NYC is one of the few places in North America where you can literally step off a sidewalk and wave down a cab on the street, so the convenience of calling Uber through an app isn't as important in NYC. Uber fills a niche for NYC customers who want a more comfortable ride than a traditional yellow cab, even if it is a bit more expensive.
Expensive Uber rides are going to hurt restaurants, too. It will add a $30-60 dollar surcharge to meals. I’m guessing what it would add, so if I’m under, oops!
He must have a well-paying job.
Yep
In NYC you STILL must mask up to ride in an Uber.
My grandfather was born (in 1909), lived, and died in Brooklyn. He never owned a car. Never even had a driver’s license his whole life. Never needed one. Always took public buses and trains. A taxi was a rarity.
Whenever I needed to go somewhere unfamiliar in Brooklyn (or anywhere else in the entire city) and didn’t know how to get there, all I had to do was ask Grandfather. He knew all the brooklyn bus routes like the back of his hand. He’d tell me which street corner to go to, which number bus to catch, where to get off to transfer to another bus, how long to ride that other bus, which street to get off, etc.
Right off the top of his head he’d tell me all that without so much as consulting a paper bus map. And even though he hadn’t ridden that particular route in a lot of years himself.
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