About these notes

Who writes Curbside Getting-Around Notes and what it covers.

Curbside Getting-Around Notes is a plain guide to everyday travel: ride-hailing versus taxis, how fares are built, reading a ride app's terms, and making sense of sign-up offers. The aim is simple, confident trips without overpaying.

Who writes it

The notes are written under the pen name Mirela Dinu, a frequent city traveller. No transport company, app or operator is behind this site, and nothing here is professional or legal advice.

About this address

From roughly 2015 to 2022 this domain belonged to a taxi company in Ukraine. This site is independent and is not that company, does not represent it, and has no connection to it; no booking or dispatch service runs here.

On the outside links

Some articles link to pages in other languages to show how a kind of document, such as a refund or offer page, is laid out. Those links are illustrations, not endorsements, and some are commercial pages from unrelated industries.

Updated 2026-11-10