Cannot, in the eyes of respective govt insitutions, Taxi driving
in Singapore is a private entity, it is no more a state own
entity.
Therefore to create a centralise system is beyong any open
market concept, by which, in Singapore, whereby we embrace free
trade, should not be so centralise and allow no flexibility, it
should be diverse and allow flexibility inorder to consider as an
open market economy.
The authority must therefore encourage more taxi players into
the market to create a competitive and yao society, incentives such
as surcharges are critical in any business so as to align itself to
the demand and supply chain. eg, like resturant charging high on
weekends and dinner.
As our economy move up the value chain, we, as shown recently,
lost our manufacturing effectiveness, but gain on our Service
sector especally on Data and financial sectors, this alone had
bought in more wealth to locals and also more rich flocking to our
land including facebook owner. Therefore, we see a change in our
demographic in way of highter disparity in income, from poor locals
to super rich ones who can even buy europe football club.
Thus, taxi industrial player including TD must know who are
their pax today..and truly ask yourself, is surcharges going to
effect them, or that our Taxi fare in singapore is a 3rd world
standard plying on a 1st world land. If you do not know your
customers, you dunno nothing of your business.
