Staying Safe This Holiday Season

by Michelle

With all the  holiday parties and excessive drinking to make it easier to hang out with relatives, I just wanted to post a reminder to stay safe.

I’m currently in San Francisco, where it’s fairly easy to find public transportation or catch a cab (or an Uber car). But there are cabs in Cincinnati too.

If you’ve got a smartphone, be it an Android, Blackberry, or iPhone (or anything else), there is most likely a taxi app for your phone. No kidding. Go to the iTunes store and search for “taxi.” It’s ridiculous the number of apps that are available.  I prefer to use Taxi Magic out here in San Francisco, and in Cincinnati, I always preferred Cab4Me.

The various taxi apps use your GPS or cell signal to figure out where you are, and then shows you a list of local cab companies. If you’re traveling, this is a godsend. After all, you might find yourself standing on a street corner  in a strange city, wondering where in the world all the cabs have gone. If that happens, it’s handy to have an app that will tell you not only what the nearest cab companies are, but where the nearest taxi stand is located.

According to the Cab4Me web site:

If a cab company is found in our database, you can get additional information like available car types or payment methods. If we do not have a cab company for your area, a local web search is performed. You will always get a result. In the Favorites tab you can quickly access your favorite companies and the recent tab shows companies you recently called.

Isn’t that great? You’ll even be able to request a minivan so that you and all of your slightly tipsy friends can pile into the same cab.

On New Year’s Eve, you can also generally call Care Cab, a joint venture between AAA and MADD.

Regardless of how you find a cab, just make sure you find one. It’s okay to enjoy yourself, and enjoy yourself a lot – just be safe about it.

After the jump, you’ll find a list of some cab companies in Cincinnati, in case you want to add some to your Contacts. 

AT YOUR SERVICE TAXI
859-727-8600
Serves Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties and some of Grant and Pendleton counties.

COMMUNITY YELLOW CAB COMPANY
513-721-2100 (Cincinnati) or 859-261-4400 (Northern Kentucky)
Serves Hamilton, Butler, Clermont and Warren counties and Northern Kentucky.

EXPRESS CAB
513-575-0721
Serves Clermont County. 

FAIRFIELD TAXI
513-829-3760
Serves Butler County and select parts of northern Hamilton County (north of Galbraith Road).

TRISTATE YELLOW CAB LLC
513-251-2111
Serves the Cincinnati area including Blue Ash and Mason and select parts of Northern Kentucky. 

RON’S TAXI SERVICE

513-921-4222
Serves Butler, Clermont and Hamilton counties and Northern Kentucky.

TOWNE TAXI
513-761-7700
Serves the Cincinnati area and Northern Kentucky.

YELLOW CAB OF NORWOOD
513-821-8294
Serves Cincinnati area and Northern Kentucky.

MEDINA TAXI
513-721-1444
Serves the Cincinnati area and Northern Kentucky.