I'm a pretty small and visibly queer woman, I wouldn't do any kind of taxi service alone (especially not drunk or stoned) without having some info on who's picking me up and where I am the whole ride, as a safety concern.

Train stops running at midnight where I live and at that hour it can take an hour and a half to get home with a couple station changes thrown in there. I can want the trains to be better and also acknowledge the material reality that taxi services fill a need until the trains are fixed and more efficient routes are added.