SC Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 "Operation Escargo" will affect most cities and create jams on many major routes on Thursday. Medical taxis are also involved. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 What's funny about this is that, with the possible exception of Paris, I've rarely seen a taxi in France. Do they all hole up somewhere until someone calls them out to do the snail thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cendrillon Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I believe they multi task and act as medical taxis as well as for ordinary taxi journeys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 LOL! I imagine that's the ONLY task most of them do. Outside the major conurbations, I strongly suspect that unless your mutuelle was paying, you'd have to get a bank loan to take a taxi anywhere. I think our (one) local taxi quoted a friend €35 for the 9 mile journey into town. So that's a €70 round trip.[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I once had to take a taxi from near Auch to the foothills of the Pyrenees, about 120km. To pick up Eddie's van after he broke his leg skiing. Bad road conditions too.The driver charged me 100€ which I didn't think was too bad. He helped me get the van started too, borrowed some jump leads as the battery was flat.On the way the poor man got caught by the gendarmes answering a call on his mobile - 22€ fine and 3 points [:'(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I use taxis all the time when my scooter isn't suitable.I have one firm who does medical transport and the other who does urban journeys.It isn't cheap, about 7€ a trip for anywhere in the city or 20-25 to the airport, but it saves all the expenses of owning and maintaining a car, and the drivers are marginally safer on the road than I would be [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 What's the strike about? I'd echo the views of the earlier comments about extortionate prices. Around here, the local firm charge a fortune to go in to the village ($50 for 2 x round trips of 10kms and that was 6 years ago!) He makes his money from the SECU and the mutuelles, with a particularly lucrative handicapped day centre in the village. What's more, there's an ill-disguised cartel with the other taxi operators: when we tried to get competitive quotes for our son's wedding four years ago, the other firms (effectively) refused to tender. We ended up paying for his hol in Martinique.Just by contrast, in the UK a week or two back, we paid £20 for two round trips of 15kms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I think a taxi from Rennes airport to the railway station was about 16 euros, well worth it though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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