ComfortDelGro checks on taxi drivers who "disappear" before

madcampus SG

are you sure on this? if it's true, then it's probably the best reply taxi companies can give to such complains isn't it? and so far, i haven't read about it anywhere, not that i know of.

Poolman SG

what you mean am i sure of this , com'on , i am a comfort cabby , i have to know , it's my rice bowl .

You mean LTA should be aware ? They want Comfort to do it that way . Thye knew it all the while .

As i said , the action taken is to make you people happy ...... nothing else , at least something is done , the rest , i dunno !

105090 SG

i think the comfortdelggro people who goes about catching cabbies playing hide-and-seek.. theres only 6 Embarassed

plugie SG

Now the taxi drivers play with commuters, let's play them back!

So they just want to sit around and wait for calls??? Sure... let's call for cabs but just for the fun of it... basically, call the cab to pick up at specific venue and let them take up call and you simply watch from a distance their frustrations when their passenger don't turn up!

surely, some innocent cab drivers will be involved but guess that's too bad since majority of their colleagues are keen to play cat and mouse with passengers! Once they had enough, they will cry tolong and guai guai go pick up flag-down passengers!

haha... evil!!! Twisted Evil

Volvo Olympian SG

Seems that we have a lot of taxi talks here ... anyone suggest to have a topic called ''Taxi talks''? Laughing

oxford mushroom SG

Here's what a columnist at the New Paper said he will do to punish taxi drivers:

"We've received news that bus and train fares are going up again, albeit by just a few cents. I take a bus or train about as many times as I turn into a werewolf each month so I'm not about to make a big fuss over a savings of maybe 10 cents a year.

Taxis, on the other hand, are my forte simply because I take them so often. If I call a cab during peak hour in the city, it costs me around $7 before the taxi has even moved one centimetre. I am not opposed to paying taxi drivers their dues.

But given the service level of taxis in our little city, I am wondering whether to switch to trains and buses altogether. I work in Robinson Road. If you have the misfortune of working late, you need more luck to catch a taxi home than to win at 4D.

Two Fridays nights ago, my colleague couldn't get a taxi to stop for her, although a large number of blue lights whizzed past her. She eventually gave up and called for a cab. Within a minute, a taxi turned from the corner and picked her up.

Now, if you were a betting man, would you put money on:
The probability that the only empty taxi willing to pick up a passenger was coincidentally round the corner when she called, or

The probability that the cab was waiting round the corner for some frustrated office worker to call and earn the booking fee?

If taxis are doing so well that they can afford to cruise and not pick up passengers, then they certainly don't deserve me paying them more money. The law has come to pass. But I cannot let errant taxi drivers get away with it.

So from now, this is what I will do. I will call for a taxi while waiting for the MRT and cancel it when it arrives. Will I be punishing the innocent taxi drivers? Probably, but you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

To the good taxi drivers, I first apologise.

I will stop this act when taxi drivers stop whizzing past hapless office workers desperate to get home after a hard day's work, especially overtime work.

If they lose enough passengers, they may one day go back to actually picking up passengers by the roadside once again."

Edwin Yeo, New Paper, Aug 6

Poolman SG

Good idea .

Very good idea , but a very old idea .

Used by frustrated customers almost a decade ago .

Now then he say ?

Then wait for some funny phone calls from somewhere in the middle of the night , and say : " Morning call , time to urine ! " Mr. Green

If not , off the phone for good in the middle of the night .

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