Surge prices kicked in when customers needed the transport the most, with a rideshare from Central Station to the airport quoted at $90 while others soared beyond that price. 9News
Thousands of commuters were left stranded while trying to get home yesterday following a
A trip from the city to Mount Annan would normally set a customer back $40 but at the height of the chaos it peaked at $500."I'm absolutely disgusted that Uber have decided to take advantage of an unfortunate situation in Sydney," he said. "While in the past we have been alerted by Transport for NSW when there were Sydney-wide transport issues, in this instance we had no warning that there would be such a complete outage on the NSW trains network," a spokesperson said.
"For riders charged an additional amount above that surge cap they will be auto refunded within the next 48 hours."The train shutdown occurred around 3pm with students finishing school only adding to the huge number of commuters having their journeys thwarted.
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