{"id":180,"date":"2019-11-11T23:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T23:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site124.blogs.americavip.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2021-02-01T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:23:15","slug":"taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/2019\/11\/11\/taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"TAXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/125\/files\/sites\/125\/2019\/11\/Black-Cabs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/125\/files\/sites\/125\/2019\/11\/Black-Cabs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/125\/files\/sites\/125\/2019\/11\/Black-Cabs.jpg 750w, http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/125\/files\/sites\/125\/2019\/11\/Black-Cabs-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAXI \u2013 black taxis can be hailed in the street, ordered by phone, or picked up at one of the many central ranks. Taxis are fairly expensive &#8211; the minimum charge varies according to the time of the ride (see fare chart below):<\/p>\n<p>Tariff 1: Monday \u2013 Friday 6am \u2013 6 pm<br \/>\nTariff 2: Monday \u2013 Friday 6 pm \u2013 6 am (the following day); 6 am Saturday \u2013 6 am Monday<br \/>\nTafiff 3: Monday \u2013 Friday 6 am \u2013 6 pm (during Christmas and New Year\u2019s day)<br \/>\nTariff 4: Monday \u2013 Friday 6 pm \u2013 6 am (the following day); 6 am Saturday \u2013 6 am Monday during Christmas and New Year\u2019s day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"656\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"256\" \/>\n<col width=\"82\" \/>\n<col width=\"82\" \/>\n<col width=\"82\" \/>\n<col width=\"82\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"256\">\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><u><b>Charges<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><u><b>Tariff 1<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><u><b>Tariff 2<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><u><b>Tariff 3<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><u><b>Tariff 4<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"256\">\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Initial hire not exceeding 520m.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Initial 105 seconds of waiting time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Combination of initial time and distance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">\u00a32.00<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">\u00a33.00<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">\u00a33.00<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">\u00a34.00<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"256\">\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span lang=\"en\">Each additional 195m up until 2,080m and thereafter each additional 225m.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Each additional 42 second of waiting time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Combination of additional time and distance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">\u00a30.25<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">\u00a30.25<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">\u00a30.35<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"82\">\n<p lang=\"en\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">\u00a3<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">0.45<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Source: City of Edinburgh Council<\/p>\n<p>Taxi companies operating in Edinburgh:<\/p>\n<p>Central Taxis: +44 131 229 2468<br \/>\nCity Cabs (Edinburgh) Ltd.: +44 131 228 1211<br \/>\nComCab: +44 131 272 8020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAXI \u2013 black taxis can be hailed in the street, ordered by phone, or picked up at one of the many central ranks. Taxis are fairly expensive &#8211; the minimum charge varies according to the time of the ride (see fare chart below): Tariff 1: Monday \u2013 Friday 6am \u2013 6 pm Tariff 2: Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland-en","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}