Drinkers are facing huge three hour queues to get a taxi home after a number of cabbies quit during the pandemic.
It is believed that thousands of drivers have quit in the past 18 months, with many now working for takeaway delivery firms or services like Amazon or DPD.
Uber has previously admitted it is hoping to recruit 20,000 new drivers to tackle shortages and it appears that the lack of drivers is now starting to bite revellers.
One revealed how she was forced to walk home late at night while another said she was approached by several men as she waited in the street.
Taxi companies have also been affected, with one manager describing the situation as like 'the zombie apocalypse' with cars vandalised and workers abused.
Cerys Edwards, 23, night shift manager for Coxon's Cars in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, said: 'We've had cars vandalised, I've had my window spat at, punched on. We've got a lot of this since the shortage of drivers. And people are drinking harder. It's like the zombie apocalypse – if they're not staggering everywhere, they're angry and violent.'
Meanwhile, Glasgow Taxis revealed that it has had a third of its drivers leave following the pandemic, leaving riders feeling 'extremely scared' about getting home at night.
Nightclub DJ Rosie Shannon, 29, said: 'I am waiting for a taxi for up to two hours when I leave work at the club. It is freezing cold, sometimes it is raining. I am being approached by random men on the street. It is getting to the point I am having to walk home on unlit, dangerous streets. It is extremely scary.'
A lack of taxi drivers is hitting revellers who have revealed they are waiting hours to get home
One Twitter user, discussing the taxi situation in Scotland, said: 'This is a really serious issue. I tried to get a taxi to Queen St station at 9.30pm yesterday since it was already dark - 2 taxi companies didn't answer, 2 couldn't help, one had an hour's wait and four Uber's cancelled. At 9.30pm on a Wednesday.'
Another said: 'Is there a complete shortage of taxis in London? Trying to book for tomorrow morning and on third app with no success.'
While a third wrote: 'I'm having to wait 10 minutes on my own for a bus from central London to get me home because no taxis or ubers are available. As a woman this is terrifying because of the recent events. The tubes are closed so the only option I have is to wait alone.'
Another woman said: 'Last weekend I had to walk 20 minutes from the pub to my house, alone, at 1am down roads which mostly had no street lighting, because there were no ubers or taxis available. I'm guessing it would have been my fault if I was hurt, right?'
Marshals are having to supervise queues for cabs, it has been claimed, as people wait to get home after a night out.
Dee Grant, 57, a director at C Cabs in Blackpool since 1995, said the violence is the worst she has ever known it.
She told the Mirror: 'The council put marshals on but passengers are still throwing things at taxis, frustrated they can't get in. One of our drivers got punched through his window.'
She added that drivers would 'rather work for Amazon or DPD, where they meet people smiling at the door, instead of being punched'.
Jim Buchanan, who worked as a taxi driver in Glasgow for 25 years, became a HGV driver during the pandemic when cab work dried up.
He told the BBC: 'I was
