Cheapo Pax spotted

peterpan212 SG

http://www.todayonline.com/voices/consider-classifying-taxis-form-public-transport

professional => want professional please pay profession fee.

HK taxi good then go HK take taxi. HK taxi fares more expensive than SG.

Can pay Mac or Pizza delivery and wait for 1 hrs. Expect express taxi arrival but dont want to pay booking fee?

Cannot afford, dont take taxi.

bowah SG

Why compare to Hk when you can compare with Japan professionlism and top services, HK, as I used to travel there, their cab service are so so, but hv to agree that there are more taxi on the road, but the driver altitude can be worst than Singapore.

Japan, true service, but the fares also reflect an amount that qualify that kind of services, if you put jap taxi as per singapore fare rates, I think you can get worst TD or no taxi at all. But jap got it own productive way of taxi, their top is a bulb, so all can see (even from behind) if it is hired or not, and their changing shift destination are just North, South, East and West, follow by NE, NW, SE, SW. Which I find it more productive than just give a name like Pasir Ris, you can alway said NE, a wider option for both the cab and pax.

And to end it, jap and hk are still using crown, but jap crown are very new, not the new model, the old model but very well maintained.

Ours here are mostly turboed, the author could be against the companies and govt in a cartel situation, not on taxi driver, taxi drivers in Singapore are mostly in their middle ages and above, that kind of fare do not command much service because it is a peanut fare in a 1st world and 4th most expensive city in the world.

But in return, we got mature driver who understand the important of delivery people to their destination, and of course, there will be some bla bla black sheep in any taxi driving industrial, but to compare to around the region, a pax should be glad that he or she is being serve by a Singaporeans who knows the logic of right and wrong.

You simply cannot compare an apple grow here and somewhere else

hammerhammer8888 SG

HK wu surchage lah....

Wah if we implement luggage surcharge huat liao. Especially those with trolley full load. Sibeh song.

Additional Charges Every piece of baggage (Except light personal hand baggage carried inside passenger compartment) $ 5 Wheelchairs and crutches carried by disabled passengers Free Every animal or bird $ 5 Every hiring arranged through telephone booking $ 5

hammerhammer8888 SG

Baby prams also can surcharge only wheelchair exempted. Think should have if not pax always complain us face black black when loading luggage.

Also they have this rule about the fare change.

It is not an offence if a taxi driver cannot give change to HK$500 or HK$1,000 notes.

Info from HK Transport department

Ct2220 SG

telephone booking $ 5

Long ago, One day @ coconut tree.

Our howliang Uncle LV66,
One Howliang white indian Pax and Coconut tree staff.

LV66 pick a white indian from airport to Coconut tree.

After uncle LV66 help the pax unload the luggage,

The Farking Pax took out a SGD1000 note pass to LV66, I only have this.

So happen that LV66 just got a few thousand from Ah Long San,
so that at night to pay his 菜头债.

Uncle LV66 Zai zai take out a stack of $50 and give the change back to the white indian.

The Farking Pax said, you Singapore Taxi Drive got $1000 Change ???

Uncle LV66 smile at him and said
SIR, Nowsaday Singapore very thing so expensive, $1000 is really nothing.

The Pax took out another 2 pieces of $1000 note,
In that case please give me another $2000 change.

Uncle quietly take out another two stack of $50 from his 百宝袋 and change to the Farker.

All the coconut tree reception withness the Drama。。。。。。。
Today this already become one of

bowah SG

Life goes as it is, if the top dun change, how you expect below to change, if the top are greedy and no give chance type..you expect the below to cultivate a nice, warm and caring culture…tan ku ku…it all about the top. And most top taxi companies only got 3 things in their mind, just like all Singapore business
1. Revenue driven
2. Profit driven
3. Business expansion

OptimalTrans SG

until today, many still hoping "others" to change for their better living.

for this case, still hoping the government/LTA to change, to implement something for them to get a cheap taxi ride.............

we can have plenty of brilliant ideas, real solution for whatever issue we face, but when these brilliant ideas does not contribute extra $$$ to the government, it will remain as an ideas only.

but if it is merely an idea to contribute more $$$ to the government, this ideas will be soon implement even it does not solve the issue.

this is Singapore, let face it.

you want a change, first, change yourselves

i do have hiring a taxi issue like anyone, i do have paying hefty amound for a car issue too, i do have taking bus, mrt issue too.........

so, what i do is, at the most comfortable finanical abilty, i brought a $1500 second hand motorcycle..............

i got a friend, got himself a bicycle for his daily travel to work.

there are always another solution for ourselves, it the matter of choice.

but to depend on our dear government............ we just got to pay more, and still facing the same issue.

bowah SG

Pax complain abt taxis is not a new issue lah, their comparing with other countries is alway the same one lah, year in and out, diam diam kong and kong to seek attention. But no matter what, pax will never ever complain among themselves.

For most of them, once you mention TD only, all will phui xx together

As for taxi drivers, worst, not only complain abt paxs, taxi companies and govt, but also abt other taxi drivers…that goes back to not United

peterpan212 SG

1. Revenue driven
2. Profit driven
3. Business expansion

These 3 can further summarize into $.

Taxilim88 SG

Hong Kong has over 18,000 taxis, including 45 new electric cars

Hong Kong taxi drivers, love them or hate them (actually, mostly just dislike them). They’re not ALLbad, perhaps 50% are adequate. Here are a few of the reasons why they’re not popular. Feel free to add your own reasons in the comments!

10. They curse non-stop, and complain about where you want to go

9. They don’t help you with your suitcase, or even offer to, DESPITE you paying a surcharge.

8. They drop you off at the wrong place, and then insist that it is correct

7. They always try to keep the change, despite giving you poor service

6. They smell bad, or the interior of the taxi does

5. They take the long way to get to your destination

4. They ransom, or simply just keep your mobile phone if it falls out of your pocket

3. They (illegally) want to know where you’re going before they’ll open the door (Which is why one person recently tried to Gangnam Style dance their way into a taxi… it didn’t work!)

2. They price-gouge, asking you to pay an exorbitant flat fee to get you someplace. It’s illegal, but commonplace in the Lan Kwai Fong nightlife area

1. They keep. Stepping. On. The Accelerator. And Then. Stepping. On. The Break. Which is. SUPER Annoying!

Bonus reason: they try to adjust their mirror so that they can look up girls skirts! Ewww!

H.K. taxi drivers bad reputation was once the subject of a Hong Kong movie titled “Taxi Hunter“, starring Anthony Wong Chau-Sang!

bowah SG

1. Revenue driven
2. Profit driven
3. Business expansion

These 3 can further summarize into $.

Of cos lah, then summarise into what?? satay and chicken rice ar??? no $$ no honey mah

bowah SG

Hong Kong has over 18,000 taxis, including 45 new electric cars

10. They curse non-stop, and complain about where you want to go

9. They don’t help you with your suitcase, or even offer to, DESPITE you paying a surcharge.

8. They drop you off at the wrong place, and then insist that it is correct

7. They always try to keep the change, despite giving you poor service

6. They smell bad, or the interior of the taxi does

5. They take the long way to get to your destination

4. They ransom, or simply just keep your mobile phone if it falls out of your pocket

3. They (illegally) want to know where you’re going before they’ll open the door (Which is why one person recently tried to Gangnam Style dance their way into a taxi… it didn’t work!)

2. They price-gouge, asking you to pay an exorbitant flat fee to get you someplace. It’s illegal, but commonplace in the Lan Kwai Fong nightlife area

1. They keep. Stepping. On. The Accelerator. And Then. Stepping. On. The Break. Which is. SUPER Annoying!

Bonus reason: they try to adjust their mirror so that they can look up girls skirts! Ewww!

H.K. taxi drivers bad reputation was once the subject of a Hong Kong movie titled “Taxi Hunter“, starring Anthony Wong Chau-Sang!

HK taxi drivers are very much gang base, as a taxi driver, you need to pay certain amount to be part of the gang and also to start taxi driving, so when you get an unreasonable pax like ang mo or drunken ah neh, a call only, the whole gang will arrive, pax also guai guai liao.

Ct2220 SG

Keepthechange666 SG