Taxis provide greater flexibility in meeting the needs of individual travellers and are often faster than other forms of public transport. There are three ways to catch a taxi:

• Hail a cab on the street.  Vacant taxis have an orange roof light illuminated. Hail the taxi where there is enough room at the kerb for the driver to stop safely to pick you up
  
• Wait at a taxi rank. There are taxi ranks located in the major towns at railway stations, shopping centres etc
  
• Phone a taxi.  You can phone for a taxi to pick you up by dialing 131 008 or the phone number of the company closest to you.  If you have any special needs, tell the network when you make the booking.  Phone bookings may attract a service charge.

Byron Shire Taxis - Fleet and Services

• 24 hour door to door service
• Taxi ranks is in Jonson Street
• Department of Veterans Affairs and Taxi Subsidy Scheme
• 9 Wheelchair accessible vehicles inlcuding 4 Maxi Taxis. * Has a fleet of twenty one vehicles covering a range of services.
• Special services such as RSL shuttles for patrons, seniors weekly shopping tours and Student Special Transport for children with disabilities.
• Four executive sedans and one stretched limousine are available for services including weddings, airport transfers and special nights. These sedan limousines are also used to look after Department of Veterans affairs clients for their transport to and from their doctors and specialists appointments.
• Byron Shire Taxis also runs an Airport Shuttle service under the name of Excede Airport Transfers Byron Bay that services Coolangatta and Ballina Airports with shuttle buses and limousine transfers