'Flight To Goa Cheaper': Uber Shows Rs 3,000 Fare For 50 Km Ride, Leaves Mumbai Resident Shocked
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 ? 3,000.
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.
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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 #peakmumbairains pic.twitter.com/r3JLGAwQxc
¡ª Shravankumar Suvarna (@ShravanSuvarna) June 30, 2022
"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.
treat it as a sign from above quite literally
¡ª pranav (travelcase.club) (@pranavsinghania) June 30, 2022
With UBERXL rate you can get a decent 1bhk on outer of Nashik !!
¡ª Siddharth Jain (@sjain_19121985) June 30, 2022
Is diesel/petrol that costly. As per pic it looks maximum 50 km. Even with 10km mileage it will cost around 500 rupees. They're taking 2.5 k extra for what ?. 1200 rupees should be enough for this ride.
¡ª Rahul Kumar | ????? ????? (@rahul16kr) July 1, 2022
Tumhara ghar bhi Goa se bohot jyada dur nahi hai ??
¡ª Ritesh (@ritzms) July 1, 2022
Omg !!! This is crazy ?
¡ª Dash (@Dash_bengaluru) July 1, 2022
It's criminal..it's was showing Rs1200 for Worli to Kurla... #uber sucks..i booked #OLA for Rs500.
¡ª Syedraza?? (@razasyedkawsar) July 1, 2022
Gotta look at the silver lining, the cab is only 8 mins away
¡ª cypress ice (@knbsntbttns) July 1, 2022
Sent this to my dad and he said ¡°roz thoda thoda chal ke aajao¡±
¡ª Kuchbhimtbolokunal (@kunaaaaaaaaal) July 2, 2022
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).
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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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