Yesterday George had to go to the Airport and we had booked for a call taxi - Fast Track - to pick him up at 9.45 PM. The flight was scheduled for take-off at 11.15 PM. When i called up to check the status at 9.40 PM, the fellw there told me that the booking status showed cancelled. I was shocked. It was pouring cats and dogs and there was no way he could go to the airport by bike. No autos were also willing to come in the torrents. The nearby travels' too didnt have cars. Finally, he took our car and left it at an uncles place close to the airport and then that uncle(he is close to 70 years of age) dropped him at the airport. If not for him, he would not have been able to make it. So much for the call taxi, which never even came.
When call taxi operations in chennai started off, they were good and always on time and cosidered superior to the autos.But now, they are so unreliable, and we are forced to travel by the autos. The modus operandi of the taxi drivers too are similar to the auto drivers. If one is not aware about the place, then the taxi drivers too take you around the city. In the end, its the kilometers you pay for. Furthermore the disvantage is that, unlike autos, you cannot fix a fare and start..becoz its the meter that matters in the end.
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George was lucky enough that he had somebody to drop him at that moment. You are right, nowadays call taxis have begun acting worse than autowallahs. To cite an incident, once when i had to work very late, i had booked a call taxi to Chrompet,for which i was charged a whopping 230. The reason was that they charges 12% extra after 11. But, the very next week, i again took a call taxi, this time from a different company, and he charged just rs 205. I realized that these guys have tampered their meters. So i guess these guys are no better.
Anyways, nice to see some updated posts :-) Keep posting.
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