Spotted this sticker on a car window on my travels in Dublin this morning… the rage was real.

A lot of other families will benefit from the fixed fare.

by OurBiteMcFry

44 comments

  1. Contempt for the customer is a major problem across a lot of industries today.

  3. They all have them on their cars now ,if they don’t like Uber they can stop using it, if you don’t like this sticker stop using them vote with your wallet

  4. I don’t understand the taxi drivers issue here at all. If they don’t want to work with Uber don’t. Uber isn’t forcing them onto their platform. The taxis are free to queue at ranks as they always did.

  5. I spent 45 minutes waiting for a taxi on FreeNow. They kept saying something to the tune of “there are no taxis in your area, add money for premium and we’ll get you there”.

    It was only after that 45 minutes that I opened an Uber account. Picked up within 5 minutes.

    I don’t know what else to say about it.

  6. Even the sticker doesn’t look like it works properly.

  7. I can’t believe the contempt and disrespect this nation has for King of the Road./s

  8. Taxis are a scam –

    Imagine any other business model
    Where you say “ hello, how much for your service from A to B “ and the response “ ah we will see” and we will see means whether he decided to drive straight there or the long way and also if you appear to have nice things and are in good clothes, there’s a tax for that too.

    Parasites.

  9. I still don’t quite understand the protest. The Uber app clearly provides an approximate fare range, just like Free Now and Bolt do. Uber also states that if the final fare exceeds this range, it will be capped at the maximum shown. In my experience, about 8 out of 10 rides fall within that range anyway. If the driver follows the route suggested by Uber, the fare typically doesn’t exceed it.

    So what exactly is the issue from the driver’s perspective? And moreover, aren’t drivers actually losing more money by spending time driving around the city protesting with no passengers, rather than accepting rides? That seems like a greater financial loss.

  10. It was very satisfying a few years ago in London when they went on strike and all it did was drive people to install Uber. Why would i pay more for a worse service that might include some mildly racist chat and/or theories about immigration.

  11. Had a taxi driver wearing the fucking ear off me last night about Uber.. Told be he only accepts cash. Clearly dodging taxes while complaining about the government. Fuck off.

  12. Bring in proper Uber, Bolt etc. Fuck taxis. We have to move with the times and their service isn’t at the level of 2025.

  13. Not only does Uber’s fixed rates benefit the customer, we have a record of exactly who is driving us and it offers safety and security for passengers.

  14. Free now’s fare estimates are absolutely brutal. They can fuck off with this

  15. “Stop removing our ability to rip off the punters!”

    Fixed his sign.

  16. Fuck em, they are hugely overpriced. And I don’t even like Uber but taxi drivers in this country have been ripping off customers for ages. They didn’t even accept cards for a very long time, now they have no choice luckily.

    With Bolt I paid 5,70 EUR fixed from the airport to the city centre in a bigger city in Slovakia and the distance was about 9 km (15 min) ride. In Dublin I would have paid 4-5 times that amount!

  17. People Before Profit suggested what looks the real common sense solution to this.

    Have the taxi regulator, which already has all the info relating to all properly registered taxis in Ireland, make a ride summoning app. One without the profit motive a third party like Bolt, Free Now, Uber, etc have.

    Then the taxi drivers get the fare without having to pay commission to Uber. A lot easier to accept fixed fares then.

  18. If they were smart they’d start an Irish alternative and temporarily have a fixed fare and then ditch it asap. Instead they’re pissing off customers.

  20. The irony is their complaint is with other drivers, not passengers, not uber. Once again the taxi lobby proves itself to be the dumbest and most disorganised industry lobby in Ireland.

  21. Uber is also investing heavily in self driving cars, the future of the Taxi driver as a career is not looking positive.

  22. Got a taxi the other day, Fixed fare on Uber, Driver showed up with a similar sticker and the windshield

  24. Hailed a taxi on Uber that had a boycott Uber sticker, don’t take these clowns seriously lol.

  26. Why isn’t there a co-op owned and operated taxi booking app company that does two things:

    1. Facilitate easy and efficient online bookings

    2. Keep operating costs to a minimum and accordingly add the least possible costs to regulated fares

    Surely if you just do those things the network effects will take care of themselves? Drivers will use the co-op app because it’s best for them in the long run. As more drivers prioritise the co-op app that’s also where customers will go because (a) they’ll get a taxi there quickest and easiest, and (b) they won’t get hit with bullshit add-ons (like technology fees and one-offs).

  29. I live in Europe, a few years ago started using Uber randomly one night when I couldn’t get a normal taxi. Opened the app, it told me the cost (which was half the normal cost back), could see the rating of the driver and it told me where the taxi was and how long it was going to take to arrive. I got in, clean, didn’t need to pay cash and it paid the bill on my paypal automatically. Was trippy to take a taxi ride and not be staring at the LCD digits of death shooting upwards.

    I didn’t die, it was cheaper. I’ve used it a ton since. It’s a far better service is every way. If original taxi drivers hate it, why do I care? Shock as better service is better than a more expensive worse service.

  30. I paid SEVENTY FIVE Euro for a 25 minute drive last weekend. Fuck the meters, I’m going with Uber or some other fixed fair company in future.

  31. This might be naive in entering the chat (I’m Irish, but I haven’t lived there in 20 years), but I don’t really understand the core issue here. Are taxis the only ones that will be allowed to sign up with Uber? Is it not going to be based on how other cities work, where virtually anyone can be an Uber driver?

    It seems antiquated, I guess yes on one hand it sucks for taxi drivers as Uber/ lyft ect tend to dominate the industry, but we now have technology in our pockets that makes booking a cab less stressful by reducing the anxiety of not knowing how much you will be charged for a fare.

  32. ‘No fixed fare’, my ass – it’s so comforting to know that an unexpected traffic jam isn’t going to leave you penniless.

  35. It won’t give you any winnings – uber go in take over by lowering fares and all thinks it’s great in the garden – then once they own everything they bump the fares up 200%
    They’ve already done it in other countries – I’m with the Taxi drivers for once on this
    Btw – same journey hailed a taxi on street to my home 28€ by Freenow 36 € – I won’t use free now any more

  36. Uber asked me to pay an extra €9 yesterday as it was “busy”.

  38. And driving a Ford

    I believe the saying about their cars is “Found On Road Dead” so no wonder he needs to price gouge

  39. Got an uber the other day….. said as an act of solidarity I would choose a cash taxi which gave a range of between 15 and 18€ where as the fixed fare offer was something like 15.80€…. When we arrived the taxi man told me that would be €19!!!!! They can have my solidarity and shove it up their holes now. Fixed fare all the way!

  40. Taxis reduce the price people will use them and not uber. Simple. Competition is good

  41. i went to the kennedy memorial park during the summer with a friend, and got a taxi out from the train station. didn’t give it much thought on how we would get back. about a 15 minute drive from new ross, and every single taxi i called spoke to me as if i was insane for asking for a taxi on a saturday. thankfully we managed to get through to a company that called us back but christ. the audacity of asking them to do their job.

  42. Em, that seems fine as long as they’re not also on uber? 

  44. Go slow to bump up the fare, about time the fixed fare was brought in maybe get them robbing feckers moving a bit faster on the m50 and the port tunnel.

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