Re: [Melb] Airport Heavy Rail Connection Needed!

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Why don't the Aucklanders try a bit of barter? I give it a go in Sydney when
I judge appropriate.

Dave Proctor wrote in message
<1lffgt49ff21mfab5jbtrgpbemh5mmklrc@4ax.com>...
>On Sun, 20 May 2001 12:31:25 +1000, "Derick Wuen"
><cullend@webone.com.au> wrote:
>
>>In times of taxi "oversupply" in Sydney it is sometimes possible to do a
>>fixed price deal with the driver, albeit with some risk.
>
>We do this all the time in Katoomba, quite legally (and despite our TC
>plates, we are on the same tariff as Sydney cabs).
>
>If someone is travelling as far as Woodford, we run the meter - from
>Linden on, we have a set rate, which some drivers have been known to
>negotiate on (Springwood is normally $67 on rate 2, I have been known
>to take $45 on a very VERY quiet night).
>
>Sydney Airport is normally $184, but myself and the other two drivers
>of my cab have agreed to do it for $150 for one regular contributor to
>this newsgroup who not infrequently travels by cab from a place in the
>Blue Mountains to the airport.
>
>Dave