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Author	Torran_Toi
Comment	You're probably travelling mostly during peak times like rush hour or during big events. The usual patterns are: Mon to Fri, morning commute, usually surges in the west end around Hillhead and Partick, sometimes stretching right up to Anniesland at the highest point of the peak; and Southside around Langside and Pollokshaws. In the final throws of the morning peak, the surge sometimes starts hitting into Gorbals, Anderston & Finnieston. After 9am right into the afternoon, surges extremely rare unless something unusual happens to affect driver availability (say, a big fire or car crash causing major congestion). Then evening rush, the surge is more centered on the city centre. So, Blythswood Holm, Blythswood Hill, Merchant City, Tradeston, Cowcaddens, Garnethill, eastern side of Anderston will all surge from around half 4 till 6pm. On a Friday it starts a little earlier at around 3. Almost every day from 6ish till 8ish there wont be a surge. Taxis are dead in this space of time. Most folk are at home having dinner or getting ready for going out for the night. The only exception to this is if European football is on. It's highly unusual to see surges Mon, Tues or Wed at night. Sometimes, it'll peak a little when the pubs gets chucked out, but nothing extreme, usually 1.2 or 1.3 x fare and usually very short lived. Friday and Saturday nights. Chaos. Major surges city-wide. Again though, surges are volatile and are calculated on very small blocks of the map. They change constantly. Sunday is all over the place and no two sundays have the same pattern. It surges on and off in seemingly random places. Your total Donald Duck. Unfortunately for customers you can't see how it works in real time like drivers can on their app. We have a map of the city showing the surges rise and fall all over the city on our screen. You can see small areas rise very quick for 3 minutes then fall back to zero as soon as drivers start heading towards it or customers switch off the app. Same advice as before. Unless your desperately in a hurry, just put the phone down for ten minutes and check again in a bit. The rates always come back down as drivers clear the job queues. A trick that used to work, but I don't know if it still does, is book your Uber with the "schedule a ride" feature. Book it during a non-peak time when no surge is on. The non-surge price should be honoured even if things start surging by the time the scheduled ride comes on.
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Created	Fri 30th Aug 2019 10:29am
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You're probably travelling mostly during peak times like rush hour or during big events.

The usual patterns are:

Mon to Fri, morning commute, usually surges in the west end around Hillhead and Partick, sometimes stretching right up to Anniesland at the highest point of the peak; and Southside around Langside and Pollokshaws.

In the final throws of the morning peak, the surge sometimes starts hitting into Gorbals, Anderston & Finnieston.

After 9am right into the afternoon, surges extremely rare unless something unusual happens to affect driver availability (say, a big fire or car crash causing major congestion).

Then evening rush, the surge is more centered on the city centre. So, Blythswood Holm, Blythswood Hill, Merchant City, Tradeston, Cowcaddens, Garnethill, eastern side of Anderston will all surge from around half 4 till 6pm. On a Friday it starts a little earlier at around 3.

Almost every day from 6ish till 8ish there wont be a surge. Taxis are dead in this space of time. Most folk are at home having dinner or getting ready for going out for the night. The only exception to this is if European football is on.

It's highly unusual to see surges Mon, Tues or Wed at night. Sometimes, it'll peak a little when the pubs gets chucked out, but nothing extreme, usually 1.2 or 1.3 x fare and usually very short lived.

Friday and Saturday nights. Chaos. Major surges city-wide. Again though, surges are volatile and are calculated on very small blocks of the map. They change constantly.

Sunday is all over the place and no two sundays have the same pattern. It surges on and off in seemingly random places. Your total Donald Duck.

Unfortunately for customers you can't see how it works in real time like drivers can on their app. We have a map of the city showing the surges rise and fall all over the city on our screen. You can see small areas rise very quick for 3 minutes then fall back to zero as soon as drivers start heading towards it or customers switch off the app.

Same advice as before. Unless your desperately in a hurry, just put the phone down for ten minutes and check again in a bit. The rates always come back down as drivers clear the job queues.

A trick that used to work, but I don't know if it still does, is book your Uber with the "schedule a ride" feature. Book it during a non-peak time when no surge is on. The non-surge price should be honoured even if things start surging by the time the scheduled ride comes on.