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I wonder if this lot can get their data right

Coventry has the most expensive taxi journeys in the country, with an average cost per mile of £3.11.

That's according to new figures from Regtransfers.co.uk, which has combined local authority data to create an original data set.

But Coventry City Council says it doesn't recognise the figures and instead says the city stands at 84th according to other data.

Regtransfers.co.uk has released an interactive map to highlight the average cost of a taxi in 25 of the most populated cities in the UK.

And Coventry comes out on top.

The city is also ironically the home of the black cab. LTC (the London Taxi Company) first started building black cabs in Holyhead Road in Coventry in 1919, but then went into administration in 2012.

Production of the famous black cabs restarted in Coventry in 2013 and LTC has now opened a new £300 million factory to make 5,000 electric black cabs per year in the UK.

The UK Taxi Price Index aims to shine a spotlight on the cost of a cab in the UK.

A price guide for when you are travelling around the country, the index rates cities according to the minimum fare and average cost per mile.

The average cost per mile was calculated on the basis of one, two, three, four and five-mile journeys in each city.

The research found that in some cities in the UK, people are paying almost 45 per cent more for their taxi journey compared to elsewhere in the country.

That’s a big disparity in cab fares.

With reports of Hackney carriage fares on the rise up and down the country, you might expect that the capital would come with predictably pricey fares, but London is the fifth most expensive city to hail a cab, with an average cost per mile of £2.99.

What the council say

A spokesman for Coventry City Council said: "It would be interesting to understand the methodology used by the UK Taxi Price Index as in other polls, such as Private Hire Monthly, place Coventry 84th in the UK.

“Prices in Coventry may be slightly higher than in some other towns and cities but this reflects the fact the bar we set for local taxi providers is higher than the norm.

“For example, as well as being DBS-cleared, Coventry hackney taxi drivers need to have Child Sexual Exploitation awareness training, have disability awareness training, pass a knowledge test of Coventry's roads and submit their vehicle to tests every six months.

“That is not always the case in other towns and cities across the UK.”

The top 10 most expensive cities to hail a cab

Coventry = £3.11

Leeds = £3.06

Oxford = £3.04

Cambridge = £3.03

London = £2.99

Bristol = £2.90

Southampton = £2.89

Birmingham = £2.82

Manchester = £2.81

Stoke-on-Trent = £2.72

The top 10 cheapest cities to hail a cab

Liverpool = £2.15

Edinburgh = £2.22

Brighton = £2.28

Kingston = £2.45

Swansea = £2.45

Belfast = £2.45

Sunderland = £2.53

Bradford = £2.53

Leicester = £2.60


Nottingham = £2.61

The total number of licensed taxi and private hire vehicles and licensed drivers in England reached record levels in 2017.

Total licensed vehicle numbers increased by 16 per cent to 281,000 since 2015, the highest number since comparable records were first collected in 2005.

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