[BostonTaxiDriver]

Something interesting happened last night. I lucked out with timing and pulled into the Logan staging lot just as an $8 surge came up. They gave me 16-20 in the queue and I parked the car. I checked the app and saw that suddenly the wait was 21 minutes for anybody new and that the line for them was now 121 cars. So the only way this could have happenned was for roughly 100 cars to go online just after I got there.

So you mean it was another Uber app "quirk," as you're saying there's no way 100 additional drivers could have suddenly somehow all entered so quickly?

False advertising on the Logan queue?

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As far as driving in and around Providence at night, despite all of their progress and national accolades in the past decade or more, isn't it generally more dangerous a city than comparable parts of the good and bad areas of Boston and nearby?

I've never really had an issue over the years in and just near downtown when visiting, even at night, several times yearly, but maybe because I don't know it in depth, it just seems more dangerous in parts, according to incidents I read about. (Yes, too long of a sentence!)
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Sure, there are many affluent college students mainly concentrated on or near College Hill, but the economy is not on Boston's level, thus more discernable poverty, lower prices and wages -- and likely more violence.

I'll defer to RI drivers on this opinion.