Each week some 30,000 people download the app and order a car for the first time in London.
It’s just as wildly popular here in Manchester too. Order a cab from anywhere in the city centre and you’ll very rarely have to wait more than three minutes for a driver to arrive.
Of course one of the reasons it’s so popular among people is that it’s a cashless app that also cuts out having to talk to an actual person.
But is it actually cheaper than its competitors?
A five-seater black cab is never a budget option but is Uber cheaper than Street Cars or other minicab companies available here in Manchester?
Taxi price comparison app Karhoo should help answer that query. Karhoo operates an open service that lets any company connect to the app. Unless you’re Uber.
Karhoo will tell you the estimated fare of local services such as Manchester Cars and Street Cars but it does not include Uber in its results at all.
For the sake of this test we just used the Uber app to find the prices they charge.
So, how much would it cost me to travel from
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The Trafford Centre to The Hilton on Deansgate?
Karhoo:
Street Cars: £17.10
Passenger Cars: £13.20
Uber: £7-£11
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Manchester Airport to Didsbury Village?
Karhoo:
Street Cars: £17.70
Passenger Cars: £14.10
Uber: £10-£14
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Each of those would cost only £12 on MCR Hacks Tariff 1.
However M-E-N say we are not a budget option. ?
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cheapest-taxi-firm-in-manchester-11695111
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Manchester Hack. Destroyed by storm"Doris"
This Manchester Hack was destroyed in Fridays storm.
Parked in an alley off St Helens Rd Bolton.
The gable end of a house fell on it.
I do not think even the fabled Mr Norbury (aka Steptoe) could rescue this one.
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FARRINGDON
A woman riding pillion died after being thrown from the back of a motorbike in a crash with a taxi.
Passers-by battled to save the victim, in her 40s, who was thrown ten feet down the road after the accident in Farringdon at 8.44pm on Tuesday.
Witnesses said the male rider of the motorcycle, who was also injured, was calling out her name in shock as she lay dying.
One witness, who arrived seconds after the crash, said: “A family were getting out of the back of the silver-coloured black cab as I arrived, completely shaken up.
“The motorbike was under the front of the taxi and the woman had gone flying off. She was lying face-down about ten feet further down the road.
“I saw a guy who was walking around limping and in shock who must have been riding the bike. His helmet was on the road.
“He was calling her name and speaking as though he knew her. It was just so awful. He clearly wasn’t processing what was happening."
He went on: “I asked someone to run around the bars asking for defibrillators but they didn’t have any.
“There were three of us giving her CPR. It felt like forever but I was only there for 15 minutes before paramedics came.
“I broke down walking home. It was so horrendous.”
The crash happened at the junction of Farringdon Road and Clerkenwell Road. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
A Met spokeswoman said the driver of the taxi stopped at the scene and is helping officers with inquiries. He has not been arrested.
Detectives from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit are investigating.
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