TAXI fares are set to rise in Eden from next Saturday, January 13.
The latest meeting of Eden District Council's works and leisure committee agreed that the daytime rate for hackney carriages for the first mile will go up from £1.80 to £2 and at night will go up from £2.40 to £2.60 for the first mile.
Fares were last changed in November 1998 and the taxi trade requested a review in view of the rise in fuel prices and inflation.
The daytime tariff in the South Lakeland area for the first mile is £ 2.20.
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