The tube is £10 a taxi is £15, what do you do?

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Looking at the cost of getting to a friend’s house for dinner. It’s three changes on the tube and roughly £10 for two, takes 40 minutes. A taxi is £15 door to door and takes 45 minutes.

Which would you take?

Taxi, unless you're really strapped for cash. The £10 (return) difference is not worth the hassle otherwise.

Exactly.

No way an Uber through London for 45 mins takes £15!

I’d always take the tube though.

Taxi

The tube, I hate getting taxis.

For the sake of a fiver and limited dicking about, a taxi.

Got a Uber today 10 minute journey and it was £12.00. Only got an Uber because DD brought a bike from Halfords and was easier than getting the bus.

Taxi due to time saved

How is time saved by taking the taxi? OP said 40min by Tube, 45 min by taxi.

Tube, anyway. It's always likely to be quicker than a road journey and it's significantly cheaper.

Taxi fare might increase if the journey takes longer for any reason, Tube fare will be capped.

It also depends how far the stations are from the respective houses which can add to transport times. Unless they both live right near the stations.

Tube there as it's quicker and cheaper, maybe taxi back.

Depends where you're changing on the Tube and which lines you're using. How much trekking from one platform to another is there and how reliable is each line?

🤣 no worries! I’m sorry then for over explaining my reasoning!

Tube there if the switches are easy enough and taxi back.

Tube. Taxi may barely move with the traffic. Taxi worst for the environment. Taxi more expensive. Any time I am used to take a taxi I always felt I had to make conservation with the taxi driver which I hated. Taxi will not be as reliable.

Tube is too stressful, to smoggy and too hot. Taxi wins every time. I used to blow my nose and the tissue would be black when I got the tube every day.

It depends what the changes are. If they're really easy ones (like Victoria to Bakerloo line at Oxford Circus) then tube every time. But if you have to walk miles along passages, like some changes at Embankment or Bank) then maybe Uber

Or tube there and Uber back (especially if you will be rather - umm - relaxed later on)

The timings and cost seem odd.... tube is usually quicker, and even a 10 minute ride to my local hospital cost be > £6 by Uber.
According to city mapper, for example, Tottenham Hale to Victoria (random journey, just the last one I undertook) is 21 mins by tube. Uber is 55 mins and £24!

just because Uber quoted you £15 does not mean a driver will turn up and take you

Definitely taxi

Uber now add service fee plus clean air charge

Couldn't agree more.
OP is either mistaken or a troll that's never actually been to London.

Taxi

Surely you need a taxi back too?
I pay around £19 for a uber everyday to
get my girl to school (twice daily so almost £40 total). The journey is about 25 minutes.
Sometimes the price is more due to high demand. Transport strike days and if it’s pissing down with rain the price can jump up
by a tenner.
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Tube there, taxi home.

A fiver each for a 40 minute journey by public transport is amazing. It's costly and unreliable to take public transport here. Maybe tube there and taxi/Uber back?