Traffic is a problem for everyone around India, no matter what city you are in. And?cab companies?do not make it easy on the pocket what with surge prices during peak hours.?
But you know a road is not always the cheapest method to commute? You can ask this man in Mumbai all about it.
A Mumbai resident, Shravankumar Suvarna, wanted to take a ride home and to his shock, the fares for the 50-kilometre trip were well over?Rs?3,000.
Taking to Twitter, Shravankumar shared his ordeal. He even shared screenshots of the Uber app that displayed the prices.?UberGo was charging Rs 3,041, Premier had a fare of Rs 4,081, and XL would charge a whopping Rs 5,159.?
"Flight to goa is cheaper than my ride home," he tweeted with a screenshot from the app.? ?
The tweet has garnered over 3,000 likes and tons of reactions.?
The phenomenon of cab companies charging exorbitant fare charges isn't just prevalent in India.??
Last year,?a man in the UK woke up very stunned and confused from a night out after he saw an uber ride fare worth??104 (Rs 10,413) after travelling just 11 miles (17.7 km).
According to?Manchester Evening News, Sam George took the cab from Manchester City Centre to his home in Crumpsall. This took less than half an hour.?He had spent the night partying with friends at the popular Factory nightclub.
According to Sam, the fare from the?nightclub?to his house is generally 'around ?25'. However, when he looked at his phone the next day to find his trip home ended up being four times this amount.? ?
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