Taxi ride at night!

Now taxi drivers would claim 15% extra fare for travel from 10-30pm till 4-30am.But would this extra money to be coughed up by the passengers ease availability of cabs at night?Among the metro cities Kolkata has the dubious distinction of highest taxi refusals.Even by day cab drivers refuse to go the way the passengers like to, let alone at night.Refusals get momentum after dask.The reason is the standard one-passengers will not be available on way back.In the evening if you like to go to Sealdah from Shyambazar driver will not mind to carry you to your destination but if you need to go to Dunlop from shyambazar there's a fair chance that you'll be denied a ride.You may be at best advised to go in for a shared taxi.Now to empower the cab drivers to demand 15% extra fare from 10.30pm only legitimizes the fact that now on it would be no wrong to demand extra fare from the passengers at night.Certainly extra fare would not be confined to 15% only-it'd be much more in most cases.Incidences of taxi refusals would have no quantitative change either.