Metro Jacksonville

Community => Transportation, Mass Transit & Infrastructure => Topic started by: DetroitInJAX on August 31, 2007, 12:07:36 AM

Title: Taxicabs in Jacksonville
Post by: DetroitInJAX on August 31, 2007, 12:07:36 AM
Picture it, you arrive at JIA.

You go to the information desk in baggage claim and ask how one should get around town, as youve heard WONDERFUL things about this bold new city of the south.

There's the AirJTA connection to downtown, but nobody knows about it.

Theres Express Shuttle, but thats like 30 bucks..

You can stroll over to Avis and get yourself a nice convertible, because this is Where Florida Begins, after all..... for a few hundred.

Or....  You can take a taxicab.  This is where I come to my point.

Being from Detroit and travelling quite frequently, I have been in many taxicabs in many different states/countries and next to Bombay, Jacksonville has the most SCARY taxicab fleet I have ever seen.  Would you really get into a "Hurry Cab" or "Yellow Cab"?  Seriously, I see these things on the freeway and wonder if the wheels are gonna fall off.

Who does one complain to about this in city government?  These companies are representatives of our city and the last thing we need is some broken down old clunker picking you up from the Omni.  We already give ourselves enough black eyes.. we dont need any more.