Originally Posted by
Tamino
I have never had a taxi driver in Paris take me other than by the most expeditious route to my destination. You are absolutely within your right to dictate the route you prefer. If you do not know the optimal route to your destination, how can you authoritatively state that a driver didnīt either and that he was lost?
It has happened many times. The last time was a taxi driver chatting on the phone and just passed the street and kept going. I told him he was going the wrong way but by the time he turned back it was probably an extra few euros. There is also the language barrier. My french is not good at all and some taxi drivers pretend (or maybe really) do not understand when I tell them how to get from one place to another.
This is not only in Paris. It happens in NYC or Buenos Aires or any other city that I know my way around.