Taxis
Charlotte:
January 13th, 2007
We have heard a lot from the police recently about making sure that we plan our journeys home carefully, whether because of the temptation to drink and drive in the festive period or for the poor women of Ipswich when there was a murderer in their midst. Booking a taxi ahead of time is often easier said than done though. My brother tried to pre-book a taxi to pick him and his girlfriend up from a night out last Friday. They expected to arrive at the station at 1am . He was told that no bookings could be taken for weekends and as that would technically be Saturday morning they could not help. He then asked whether they could be picked up at 11.45pm – still Friday night as opposed to Saturday morning. Unfortunately, they explained, bookings could not be accepted for between 6pm and midnight on weekdays either. In the event, they phoned when they got back to the station and only had to wait about ten minutes but had this been me on my own I would have felt far from safe standing in the dark in the small hours of the morning at a railway station.