Tough to get an Uber or Taxi after the show on Sat?

PH20

Wondering what it might be like tonight to get back downtown after the show?

DM282158

Just gotta walk a bit because of crowd the crowd despersing from what I found. But easy to pin an Uber down. 

jmug23

You can get an Uber, but it will be surge pricing. We had to pay $117 to go 12 miles in Seattle after the show. Our friends waited about 90 minutes after show and price dropped to about $60. Normally that’s about a 15 dollar Uber. 

tschav

Walk a few blocks south on Clark after the show and you may have better luck. Also Monday nights should be calmer in Wrigleyville so a little less of a crowd to fight.

mikeliska

It shouldn't be that bad.  Depending on where you're going, the red line might be the better option.

crookedcross

Train

PH20

Thank you. 

kaseylily

Cab driver offered us a ride back to the hotel for $100. 
Spent $12.50 to get there....!

PJ_Soul

I had no idea it was legal for Uber to gouge people during events (I'm hearing $250 charges that normally cost $30 or $40!!). That is terrible, and it absolutely should not be legal IMO. Public transportation services (or whatever you call cabs and uber) needs to be regulated, I don't care what kind of system it is. The consumers need to be better protected than this.
And now people are saying cab drivers were doing it too?? Pretty sure that IS illegal already. Cabs are bound to the set fare calculation, are they not?

PH20

We stayed at Doubletree downtown.
Uber to the show was $13, uber back was $38.  Not to bad IMO...

mace1229

PJ_Soul said:

I had no idea it was legal for Uber to gouge people during events. That is terrible, and it absolutely should not be legal IMO. Public transportation needs to be regulated, I don't care what kind of system it is. The consumers need to be better protected than this.

Normal fair from where we stayed was about $10
Night 1 we found a place to eat and was there over an hour and still paid 2.5 times fair for a $25 uber to get home when it was $10 to get there. Night 2 we walked about 6 blocks to find the place we wanted to eat was closed, so we took a ride home much sooner. Paid 4 times normal fair that night and cost me $40. It said right on there "Due to high demand 4 times fair" or something like that.

Made me wish we stuck to public transit like I did in '13. $100 total in uber for the 2 nights just getting to and from Wrigley, and we were like 4 miles away.

PJ_Soul

PH20 said:

We stayed at Doubletree downtown.
Uber to the show was $13, uber back was $38.  Not to bad IMO...

Not anywhere near as bad as some other people got... But it still seems like it should be criminal to me. The price shouldn't change at all. This isn't AS bad as gouging people for water and food during an emergency, but it's somewhere in the same ballpark, you know? Reasonable access to transportation is actually a safety issue in some cases.

PJ_Soul

mace1229 said:

PJ_Soul said:

I had no idea it was legal for Uber to gouge people during events. That is terrible, and it absolutely should not be legal IMO. Public transportation needs to be regulated, I don't care what kind of system it is. The consumers need to be better protected than this.

Normal fair from where we stayed was about $10
Night 1 we found a place to eat and was there over an hour and still paid 2.5 times fair for a $25 uber to get home when it was $10 to get there. Night 2 we walked about 6 blocks to find the place we wanted to eat was closed, so we took a ride home much sooner. Paid 4 times normal fair that night and cost me $40. It said right on there "Due to high demand 4 times fair" or something like that.

Made me wish we stuck to public transit like I did in '13. $100 total in uber for the 2 nights just getting to and from Wrigley, and we were like 4 miles away.

Insanity. I wasn't even there and I'm mad about it, lol. It's the principle of it more than a money issue.

PH20

PJ_Soul said:

mace1229 said:

PJ_Soul said:

I had no idea it was legal for Uber to gouge people during events. That is terrible, and it absolutely should not be legal IMO. Public transportation needs to be regulated, I don't care what kind of system it is. The consumers need to be better protected than this.

Normal fair from where we stayed was about $10
Night 1 we found a place to eat and was there over an hour and still paid 2.5 times fair for a $25 uber to get home when it was $10 to get there. Night 2 we walked about 6 blocks to find the place we wanted to eat was closed, so we took a ride home much sooner. Paid 4 times normal fair that night and cost me $40. It said right on there "Due to high demand 4 times fair" or something like that.

Made me wish we stuck to public transit like I did in '13. $100 total in uber for the 2 nights just getting to and from Wrigley, and we were like 4 miles away.

Insanity. I wasn't even there and I'm mad about it, lol. It's the principle of it more than a money issue.

Taxi drivers shouldn't be bargaining, but Uber has "surge" pricing that automatically adjusts through the app, so the cost is higher during peak times.  The drivers aren't changing the price.

PJ_Soul

PH20 said:

PJ_Soul said:

mace1229 said:

PJ_Soul said:

I had no idea it was legal for Uber to gouge people during events. That is terrible, and it absolutely should not be legal IMO. Public transportation needs to be regulated, I don't care what kind of system it is. The consumers need to be better protected than this.

Normal fair from where we stayed was about $10
Night 1 we found a place to eat and was there over an hour and still paid 2.5 times fair for a $25 uber to get home when it was $10 to get there. Night 2 we walked about 6 blocks to find the place we wanted to eat was closed, so we took a ride home much sooner. Paid 4 times normal fair that night and cost me $40. It said right on there "Due to high demand 4 times fair" or something like that.

Made me wish we stuck to public transit like I did in '13. $100 total in uber for the 2 nights just getting to and from Wrigley, and we were like 4 miles away.

Insanity. I wasn't even there and I'm mad about it, lol. It's the principle of it more than a money issue.

Taxi drivers shouldn't be bargaining, but Uber has "surge" pricing that automatically adjusts through the app, so the cost is higher during peak times.  The drivers aren't changing the price.

 It should not be legal. If I were a politician I'd be campaigning for better regulation of Uber to stop this from happening. "Surge pricing" sure is a nice name for gouging, lol.

mikeliska

PJ_Soul said:

PH20 said:

We stayed at Doubletree downtown.
Uber to the show was $13, uber back was $38.  Not to bad IMO...

Not anywhere near as bad as some other people got... But it still seems like it should be criminal to me. The price shouldn't change at all. This isn't AS bad as gouging people for water and food during an emergency, but it's somewhere in the same ballpark, you know? Reasonable access to transportation is actually a safety issue in some cases.

Not really.  Private car transportation is hardly some basic human right.  Hooray for capitalism, I guess.

PJ_Soul

mikeliska said:

PJ_Soul said:

PH20 said:

We stayed at Doubletree downtown.
Uber to the show was $13, uber back was $38.  Not to bad IMO...

Not anywhere near as bad as some other people got... But it still seems like it should be criminal to me. The price shouldn't change at all. This isn't AS bad as gouging people for water and food during an emergency, but it's somewhere in the same ballpark, you know? Reasonable access to transportation is actually a safety issue in some cases.

Not really.  Private car transportation is hardly some basic human right.  Hooray for capitalism, I guess.

Not a basic human right, but definitely a safety issue. Boo for capitalism.

mikeliska

Did you actually feel unsafe at any point?  The red line is right there, as are a number of buses.  If you don't want to pay the inflated prices go have a beer somewhere while they calm down.

PJ_Soul

mikeliska said:

Did you actually feel unsafe at any point?  The red line is right there, as are a number of buses.  If you don't want to pay the inflated prices go have a beer somewhere while they calm down.

I wasn't even there this time - I'm talking generally. The specific city is irrelevant. There are plenty of stories about people who couldn't find or afford transportation at night who ended up getting attacked/mugged/raped/killed. Anyway, alternate options are also not the point. "Surge pricing" (gouging) is pure bullshit IMO; all it's doing is taking advantage of the consumer, and that's never cool in my book, no matter what the product or service is. I believe in consumer protection, period. That it could also be a safety issue just makes this a worse case than many IMO.
I know people who for some reason still think pure capitalism is a good idea won't agree with me, lol.

Indifference71

I've been finding lately that Lyft prices are much better than Uber.  For my long ride back to the suburbs Monday night about an hour after the show, the Uber quote was $110 and Lyft was only $30!  Crazy.

mikeliska

I get your point and I'm hardly some captain of industry but I can't fault Uber surge pricing, at all.  It's supply/demand at work in a nice free market for a non-essential, private service.  Uber/Lyft didn't exist but a few years ago and all was well.  I completely get your standpoint but I don't think it's something that needs to be regulated like that.

PJ_Soul

mikeliska said:

I get your point and I'm hardly some captain of industry but I can't fault Uber surge pricing, at all.  It's supply/demand at work in a nice free market for a non-essential, private service.  Uber/Lyft didn't exist but a few years ago and all was well.  I completely get your standpoint but I don't think it's something that needs to be regulated like that.

I am pretty close to being a Canadian socialist, so there you go. Well, democratic socialist (Go Bernie, haha). I love market regulation for consumer protection!

kaseylily

kaseylily said:

Cab driver offered us a ride back to the hotel for $100. 
Spent $12.50 to get there....!

..and it wasn't only one taxi. Another stopped and offered us a ride for $40. 
I didn't think they could do that. That's massive bull shit!

PJ_Soul

kaseylily said:

kaseylily said:

Cab driver offered us a ride back to the hotel for $100. 
Spent $12.50 to get there....!

..and it wasn't only one taxi. Another stopped and offered us a ride for $40. 
I didn't think they could do that. That's massive bull shit!

I think they have to turn off the meter to do that, plus they are bound to the set rate that meter says, so technically, they can't do that.... jerks!

DJ253147

PJ_Soul said:

kaseylily said:

kaseylily said:

Cab driver offered us a ride back to the hotel for $100. 
Spent $12.50 to get there....!

..and it wasn't only one taxi. Another stopped and offered us a ride for $40. 
I didn't think they could do that. That's massive bull shit!

I think they have to turn off the meter to do that, plus they are bound to the set rate that meter says, so technically, they can't do that.... jerks!

Same thing happened to us after Safeco. We dilly dallied and missed the train and just before 1:00 AM we could have gotten Uber back to Seattle center (space needle) for like 27.00. Well I was pissed off and thought prices might come down. What a joke. Suddenly Uber jumped to $55.00 so after walking 1/2 mile we flagged a cab who wanted $40.00 lump sum. You know that cab is watching those Uber rates blow up and  at 1:30AM who wants to fuck around longer. It’s fucking bullshit alright. Lesson learned for us however as I’d never used Uber before and honestly don’t get out real late a whole bunch.

PJ_Soul

DJ253147 said:

PJ_Soul said:

kaseylily said:

kaseylily said:

Cab driver offered us a ride back to the hotel for $100. 
Spent $12.50 to get there....!

..and it wasn't only one taxi. Another stopped and offered us a ride for $40. 
I didn't think they could do that. That's massive bull shit!

I think they have to turn off the meter to do that, plus they are bound to the set rate that meter says, so technically, they can't do that.... jerks!

Same thing happened to us after Safeco. We dilly dallied and missed the train and just before 1:00 AM we could have gotten Uber back to Seattle center (space needle) for like 27.00. Well I was pissed off and thought prices might come down. What a joke. Suddenly Uber jumped to $55.00 so after walking 1/2 mile we flagged a cab who wanted $40.00 lump sum. You know that cab is watching those Uber rates blow up and  at 1:30AM who wants to fuck around longer. It’s fucking bullshit alright. Lesson learned for us however as I’d never used Uber before and honestly don’t get out real late a whole bunch.

That's the problem with getting a room near the Space Needle. It is way too far from downtown. I stayed near the needle once while visiting Seattle, and I'll never do it again. What a pain in the ass.