Cambridge Union Taxi

I’d give zero stars if I could. Absolutely horrendous ride from Cambridge to Fenway area. Driver didn’t say a word, drove with a heavy foot, honked at every car he encountered, swerved through traffic, went the wrong way to my apartment, I could go on and on. I would say a cab driver in the Boston area should probably know where Beacon Street is! We asked him to pull over sooner then our destination because he was going the wrong way, and we were all so scared and carsick from the driving. The driver also yelled obscenities at us when we got out of the car as we did not leave him much of a tip due to the terrible experience. If you see this cab coming RUN.

Absolutely horrible!
Called twice, never showed up …
Avoid by all costs

Worst cab experience ever!
Driver was dark-​skinned, older man with black & gray goatee and thick (possibly Caribbean or Haitian) accent.
Told him I lived near a Dunkin Donuts. As we approached, he took a phone call that I had to interrupt to give directions. Then he was too busy with his call to turn the meter off or to help with my groceries. Then he tried charging me $ 5 more than any other cab ever has. After I fought him, he threw my dollar bills at me.

Horrible. Arrived late and tried to trick us when we went to the airport. Our cabbie was rude and condescending.
Our hotel had given us the number, but should have Unilocaled it before calling them!

Got a ride back to East Arlington from Porter with 3 other passengers.
$ 8 cab ride, gave him $ 15 — I like to tip cabbies well since they usually get hosed on tips and usually by their cab companies too — and barely a thanks.

Avoid.
I had a 6am flight the next morning, so I call Cambridge Union. I say: 4:45 am, tomorrow morning, my address, my phone number. They repeat it all back to me.
They don’t show up.
They don’t pick up when I call them at 4:50 am.
By the grace of something-​out-​there I catch the first 77 bus to Harvard, snag a cab, and make my flight with seconds to spare.
Stick with anyone else.

So tonight I arrived in to town near MIT after a 3 day ski trip. I was exhausted, sore, starving, and dehydrated. It was, of course, freezing cold out. I used goog411 to call a local taxi. They said it’d be 30 minutes — so I called Union Taxi — and they said it’d be 10 minutes, so I went with them. That phone call should have been enough of a warning, but being tired and stupid (one of which I can blame on the ski trip, the other is just inherent to me), I ignored the facts that the guy spoke through an accent so thick that I had to ask him to repeat everything at least 2x (and would get irritated with me when I didn’t understand every word of gibberish out of his mouth) and that he was incredibly rude.
Being a fairly patient person, I gave them 20 minutes to show up. At that point I called them again and asked what was up. The driver that was supposed to pick me up answered the phone this time (shouldn’t they have somebody at some sort of base station doing this?). He told me that while driving over there he had picked up somebody else and I should find another taxi. No apology. Of course he never called me to tell me he wouldn’t be picking me up. Nothing.
Luckily, some random taxi drove by about 2 minutes later so all was well.
Avoid these schmucks at all costs.