On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:14:57PM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:

Are they really so rare that you couldn't phone for one and have it
arrive as soon as a minicab? The places I've lived outside of London
with a mixture of hackneys and minicabs it's been just as simple to call
one of the former as the latter.

Surely in the interests of fairness the black cab would have to wait 24
hours, just like the minicab, when not being hailed on the street.

But in any case, last time I tried to summon a black cab using Hailo
(sorry, I don't know the phone numbers of any black cab drivers) they
said it would take an hour and ten minutes to get a car to me. That
makes it pretty clear that they have hardly any cars in the whole of
south London, and few outside the area that want customers from south
London.

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