I was living in Valancia Spain, the first day I got there I remember walking down what turned out to be one of the main streets in the city to find it being blocked by hundreds of taxis in a peaceful protest. Ok fine, I didn’t know why and it was all cosure with the police.
Then a few months later my ability to use a good quality app with verifiable trust (extremely important in some parts of the world) and recourse to the operator was suddenly taken away.
I had to order taxis using one of the crap taxi middlemen apps which offer little to no support for when things go a wrong and I was back to riding in cars where the driver was actively trying to rip you off.
Oh you’ve lived here 10 years but you need to look on the map of where one of the main streets is? Ok great, make sure the meeter is started before you do that.
Oh it’s after 8pm so that short 4.50€ journey is automatically a minimum 6€ Ok great enjoy.
25€ to the airport? I’m sure this used to be 14…
Taxis suck, lack accountability and will do anything it takes to maintain their market share while providing a horrible scammy service.
