If one taxi driver pax haven't on board , press meter ...... it
will start an unneccessary dispute . Jst wait for a few seconds ,
got harm meh ?
If one taxi driver , stop at bus lane for paxes , they are
indirectly educating paxes , bus lane can stop if they flag .
But once other taxi drivers dun stop , paxes starting to tell
LTA , Singapore taxi drivers dun stop for them , bad service by sgp
cabbies etc etc nuisance , all because of one asshole who stop for
them before .
I ever stop outside bus lanes , second lane at traffic light
while it's red , and open my window : " I can't stop and pick
u up at bus lanes , u have to go taxi stand and get a cab outside
bus lanes .'
I really dun care if they can find any taxi stand , i really dun
care if they know whether or not it's bus lanes .
I educate them , one more knew the policy , that's good for us
.
Bos, I agree with u in a way…
on some issues concerning safety a message hv to be sent. .
But on the above 2 issues u hv listed,,,
I try to look at it in another way. Those 2 drivers Chrysler and
Wish may be one of those who feel those long stretches of bus lanes
are a waste of space/under-utilised.
The system is intended to push more ppl to take bus/mrt.
Tats why bus stops are usually
located at good locations closer to mrts…
but don forget there are paxs
with genuine need to take taxis like elderly who cant walk far n so
on…
I sometimes also go into bus
lanes/bus stops to take paxs stranded in the rain and I will tell
them I helping them only…why don you complain to XXX let taxis stop
at bus stops lah... .
True if all of us don
take..
then paxs LL hv to go taxi
stands and with Tds “educating“ them they will come to accept and
go find taxi stands …all is well for XXX...
Then if more TDs bo hui also
take and more paxs start waiting at bus stops/bus lanes and
complain not enuf taxis/taxi stands then XXX may wake-up. Already
NTA hv already petitioned XXX to let taxis share bus stops and bus
lanes…
but this is unlikely cos
mentioned reasons…
XXX don listen to Tds but they
will listen to paxs…
end up maybe compromised
solution “to strike a balance” make more taxi stands/pick-up drop
off points on long stretches of bus lanes….
also good. This is a cause I
think more worthy to champion…if later accepted and other Tds/pax
benefit from it,,,
the Chryler and Wish may turn
out to be heroes rather than villains. .
Same thing for the cabby who
started meter early case…
if more Tds start meter early
let say when backside touch the seat or close the door or close
boot…then tell paxs unfair to start meter when wait until cow come
home for them to load boot then slowly return trolley to get back
$1...
then come back tell u to go
carpark only,,,
then paxs themselves may think
we hv a point…
When Tds ask to review rules,
XXX may get feedback from paxs n then change the rules. Wat about
stopping meter at destination then hv to wait for paxs to get $
from piggy bank??
Can continue but too tired
liao…let go enuf arldy… zzzzzz
