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Ya can't get a taxi!!
« on: February 12, 2024, 08:04:48 pm »
Shania Twain announces Dublin date clashing with Taylor Swift The Era’s Tour
Shania Twain at The 3Arena in Dublin in September 2023. Photo: Debbie Hickey
Shania Twain at The 3Arena in Dublin in September 2023. Photo: Debbie Hickey

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US singer Shania Twain has announced a Dublin date this summer.
Twain is set to play Malahide Castle on Friday, June 28 as part of her Queen of Me tour.

The date clashes with the highly in demand Taylor Swift The Era’s Tour. Taylor Swift will play three sold out nights in the Aviva Stadium this June, 28, 29 and 30.

Twain kicked off her sold-out Queen of Me tour in April last year after releasing her sixth album Queen of Me in February 2023.

The That Don’t Impress Me Much singer will be joined by special guest Rag N Bone man on the night in Dublin.

Announcing a string of dates, she said on X: “When it rains... it pours!! ☔️ UK & IRELAND - I'm coming for you, see you this Summer!”


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In 2021, Shania kicked off her second residency in Las Vegas called Let’s Go! which sold out and continued through September 2022.

Tickets will go on sale this Thursday at 9am on Ticketmaster and will range in price, starting at €79.90, including booking fee.

TAYLOR SWIFT is on the same night in CROAK PARK!!

Dimwits will be ordering cabs for Jones Road and Back Road...You watch.

p.s. Hands up whose NOT working the busy nights?
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Re: Ya can't get a taxi!!
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2024, 08:34:05 pm »
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Twain is set to play Malahide Castle on Friday, June 28 as part of her Queen of Me tour.

Well, Shania Twain in Malahide Castle is not our problem.

https://www.malahidecastleandgardens.ie/location/  and the 2023 https://www.fingal.ie/malahide-castle-summer-concerts make NO mention of taxis so not our problem.

Fingal CC make no mention of taxis but they have a whole section if you wanna take your bicycle!

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The date clashes with the highly in demand Taylor Swift The Era’s Tour. Taylor Swift will play three sold out nights in the Aviva Stadium this June, 28, 29 and 30.

Again, not our problem.  No mention of taxis at https://www.avivastadium.ie/getting-here but, guess what, if you wanna take your bicycle, there's a section for that!
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Re: Ya can't get a taxi!!
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2024, 01:47:26 pm »
Even though you won't be able to get a bus or a tram, or later a DART or bike hire, people will ring Joe Duffy saying they couldn't order a cab, even though they ordered one from the mosh pit five minutes before the concert ended.
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Re: Ya can't get a taxi!!
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2024, 11:28:15 am »
To be fair, clients have to pay up to €20 in surge fees on top of the normal taxi fare to get a taxi of a January/February afternoon/evening when there's nothing of note on. Fuck knows what a taxi fare will be next time Garth Brooks comes to Croke Park. I'd hazard a guess it'll be four figures!
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Re: Ya can't get a taxi!!
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2024, 03:13:41 pm »
Quote from: Rat Catcher on February 15, 2024, 11:28:15 am
To be fair, clients have to pay up to €20 in surge fees on top of the normal taxi fare to get a taxi of a January/February afternoon/evening when there's nothing of note on. Fuck knows what a taxi fare will be next time Garth Brooks comes to Croke Park. I'd hazard a guess it'll be four figures!
That's if Tomorrow Never Comes! 8)
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Re: Ya can't get a taxi!!
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2024, 12:04:21 pm »
Quote from: Rat Catcher on February 15, 2024, 11:28:15 am
To be fair, clients have to pay up to €20 in surge fees on top of the normal taxi fare to get a taxi of a January/February afternoon/evening when there's nothing of note on. Fuck knows what a taxi fare will be next time Garth Brooks comes to Croke Park. I'd hazard a guess it'll be four figures!
How does a customer get charged a Score in surge pricing, I thought the most they pay is a Fiver fer booking Priority ??
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« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2024, 12:54:16 pm »
The last time I looked at the customer app there were different options. The price of a 'Priority Taxi' at that time was quoted at €10-15 higher than a normal taxi - if I remember correctly that was c.11:12 of a Tuesday morning, I think I posted an image on here as it goes. I didn't look at the prebooking options, that was just the on-demand list.

Strangely enough, I used an Uber taxi last evening and got 10% discount off the metered fare. The minimum fare with Free Now is €1.00 plus the metered fare so, in my case, Uber was between €1.74 and €21.74 cheaper than Free Now for the same journey in the same (or a very similar) car. Even at Free Now's off peak bargain bucket rate the saving almost covers the €2.00 tip I gave the driver in cash.
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Re: Ya can't get a taxi!!
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2024, 01:10:15 pm »
I had a peep at my FN customer app just now.


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« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2024, 01:19:29 pm »
It must be quiet down below in Cork, the priority fare is only €1 - €2 more than a normal taxi. I'm guessing that increases with demand... but bear in mind the "normal" taxi fare is already €1 more expensive than the metered fare charged by Uber and Bolt and you often (as I did last night) get an unexpected discount from Uber increasing the minimum saving.

I don't understand how a priority taxi fast tracks your pick up though. They both say 3 minutes on your screenshot and there's always going to be less drivers with priority status than with or without the same. Are priority drivers required to drive faster and/or break the rules of the road to earn the extra money for Free Now while at the same time some of them are forced to live in homeless shelters?
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« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2024, 01:34:50 pm »
FN and previousely Mytaxi and also Hailo have always played their cards very close to their chest about whom gets what in terms of job offers, and FN are again doing the same with their Priority bookings, leaving us just to guess what is actually going on.
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« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2024, 01:43:53 pm »
I don't think it's hard to see what's going on, Ken. Free Now invests it's money that we give it in lobbying Minister Ryan an NTA to ensure our wages are kept well below the fares it charges. We have reports of taxi drivers being forced to live in homeless shelters while Free Now increases fares while simultaneously reducing wages paid to drivers.
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« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2024, 02:01:42 pm »
I'm OK with all that, I get me few quid every week fer generally approx 25 hours, if I was working in Tescos I would have to do 80 hours a week to pull the same wedge.
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« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2024, 02:23:01 pm »
That's the future, I guess Ken. There'll be no place for the small man... it'll be the big multinationals charging high fares and paying drivers minimum wage.
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« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2024, 02:34:29 pm »
The multi nationals can only do so much, at the end of the day it will always be the small man driving the cab (bar autonomous vechiles ever get in) and the small man may well get pissed off with mr mutli national if he pushes him too far.
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« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2024, 02:46:30 pm »
They'll always find drivers who are happy to make a little more than Tesco pay. Once those drivers become the overwhelming majority the wages will fall below Tesco. Even with a lot of previously self-employed men working for them there's no resistance to freight increases. Since Hail0 launched freight has already gone up by 50% to 15% at the higher end (Free Now) with another 20% increase already in the pipeline. On the other side of the equation, as long as they can manipulate metered fares through lobbying they can keep increasing fares charged to riders.
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