Safer travel at night

How are you getting home tonight?

Don't put yourself at risk, always use a licensed minicab, taxi or night bus.

Unlicensed minicab drivers commit 11 sexual assaults in London a month. If you get into an unlicensed minicab, you are trusting your safety to a driver who may be a criminal or a sex attacker, driving an uninsured or unsafe car. Drivers who offer you a ride on the street are acting illegally.

Cabwise

Use Transport for London's Cabwise service to get the numbers of one taxi and two licensed minicabs, in your area, sent directly to your phone.

• Don’t accept a ride from a minicab driver on the street
• Do book a cab through a licensed minicab firm or use a licensed black cab
• Check that the minicab driver knows your name and destination. Always sit in the back and carry a mobile phone.

Traveline

For your quickest route home by licensed minicab, night bus or tube you can call Traveline on 020 7222 1234 or visit the Transport for London website www.tfl.gov.uk

One-Number taxi bookings

You can also call One-Number taxi bookings 0871 871 8710 to book a black cab. This is a unique new taxi booking service in partnership with the Mayor and Transport for London which gives Londoners access to 7,000 black cabs every day by calling this phone number.

The service combines all six of London's radio taxi circuits allowing customers to 'hail a cab' by telephone 24 hours a day. Passengers may pay by cash or card and can rest assured that a licensed, safe black cab has been reserved just for them. All taxis are equipped with sophisticated GPS satellite tracking systems, so locating and despatching the closest available taxi is completely automatic.

Late Night Travel guide for Camden Town

Look out for the Late Night Travel guide for Camden Town in late-night venues, giving you more information and a map of your night bus route home.

Know what you’re getting into.

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Page last updated Apr 21, 2010 4:22 PM