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Taxi fares in Bournemouth among the most expensive in the UK

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/ ... ensive-uk/

TAXI fares in Bournemouth are among the most expensive in the UK according to a recent study.

Compare My Mobile looked at prices across the UK with Bournemouth featuring in the top 10 at an average of £2.50 per kilometre.

The most expensive was Portsmouth at £3.11 with London at £3.05 and Crawley at £3.

At the other end of the scale, the cheapest fares were in Royal Leamington Spa at 62p, Belfast at 88p and Barnsley at £1.12.

A spokesman for Compare My Mobile said: "Regions within the south of England take centre stage when it comes to the most expensive taxi fares with all of the top 10 located down here."

Where to start with all this?

For a start, the charge is per kilometre, not per mile, which confuses things for a kick off. I mean, who ever analyses taxi fares in terms of price per kilometre?

Then no way of knowing how the figures are compiled, so no way of checking them. There certainly seems to be some rough consistency with the PHTM tables, but what the figures actually represent isn't clear.

And some of those in the Top 10 are actually quite far down the PHTM tables, but it's not clear whether the Top 10 covers the whole country, or just a selection.

As for Royal Leamington Spa being the cheapest at around a fifth of Portsmouth's charge, that looks like bollocks.

It's part of Warwick, from what I can see, and Warwick isn't particularly cheap.

Anyway, tried to find the source for this, but zero trace apart from this stuff on the Bournemouth paper's website, looking at it from a local angle.

Had a look at Compare My Mobile's Twitter feed and it's effectively dormant, ditto its Facebook page.

With any luck it'll be like that stuff the other week about the UK's best paid taxi drivers, which seemed to sink without trace pretty quickly

Couple of cracking comments on the paper's website too:


Suspect that's an example of what's called psychological projection, ie criticising traits in others which are in fact the critic's own traits


£12.85 for £26 miles at 2am?

If he thinks that was a genuine fare, as opposed to some massive cock-up, or whatever, then obviously doesn't have the slightest clue

the PHTM tables are wildly inaccurate there is a 40 percent discrepancy in the quoted fares for us for example

but .62p per km equates to 99p a mile where did that figure come from ?

these stats are presumably based on quotes on an online app and probably contain a few stupid quotes that are taken as real

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Blythe to Newcastle under Lyme is only 9 miles.

Are you sure that the have the right Blyth and the right Newcastle?

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Grandad,

If it was the Blyth in Northumbrland they would be lucky to get a TAXI at 2 am for less than £45 and definitely would not get one for£12.50,for that price they most likely caught a bus.

Blythe Bridge Heathy boy you really need to get a better knowledge of the geography of Britain

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Er, yes, I think that was the point I was trying to make

But when I read it first, thing that came to mind was the Tyneside trip, but then again I've never heard of Blythe Bridge.

But despite the missing 'e', I'm guessing it was Blyth in the north east rather than the Staffs one - it certainly didn't say Blythe *Bridge*.

But even in Staffs if it's 9 miles then £12.50 at 2am doesn't sound right.

And in fact the Tyneside one is only 14 miles according to Google, so the commenter was completely wrong about the distance anyway.

But, anyway, it's one of these articles that I wished I'd never bothered with in the first place, never mind the usual ill-informed nonsense in the comments sections

As I said initially, if the person really thought £12.50 for 26 miles at 2am is a credible fare then it's not really worth discussing.

But we've all just taken the bait

Anyone who thinks Portsmouth fares are higher than London fares is as nutty as a fruits cake.

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IDFIMH

or using data that is completely false and inaccurate

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector