Straight up waited (along with dozens of other people) over an hour in the cold after bars closed Downtown for a cab on New Year's Eve, finally got a limo to pick us up and two in our group walked home... The lack of options is rediculous in Anchorage, with uber you don't have to have money, you set up a pickup and drop off location so the driver(who doesn't speak English) doesn't get lost... And you can rate the drivers performance. Taxi cabs in anchorage are scabs compared to the competition.... When cabs are not available you're opening the door to a drunk driver to drive the streets, or a drunk person to wander around the sidewalks to be robbed, beaten or worse