all full time taxi drivers alert
10 years down the road
eat grass liao
time to use this 10 years to find a new vocation
Yesterday evening peak hour I picked up a pax from bishan mrt to
yishun mrt taxi stand. I was curious and asked if pax came from mrt
station, the lady's reply was she arrive from circle line and find
it tough to transfer to north/south line during that timing as
it'll be sardine pack.
Moral of the story, more mrt lines doesn't necessarily mean
better connectivity if commuters can't fit into the platform. Since
time immemorial, there's demand for personalize transport and it'll
continue. During ancient times we have human sedan, then came the
horses and we have horse carriages and eventually came automotives.
Ford made it affordable for the masses and many would have thought
that'll spell the end of many coachmen. To fill the void of
personalize transport, coachmen evolve into what we call today taxi
drivers.
Should the new mrt lines make a heavy dent to
your income, those that are not serious will throw keys first
followed by botherline drivers. Cabbies generate so much income for
taxi coys, do u think they will sit idle and die with us? Imagine
there's 20-30% idle cabs lying at their yards, storage in itself
will kill them not to mention loss of revenue. They will have some
brainstorming sessions with LTA/NTA and what have you to come out
with some measures to entice drivers back. Eventually the only way
to entice drivers back will be more carrots which is fare increase.
Gov already spelled out our transport roadmap for the future, which
is less private cars n encourage more to take public transport.
Taxi is an essential part of our public transport system
plan.
To all my beloved brethrens who are worried, I'll
say let's not worry too much and do what you need to do and that is
just drive.
