You see, bus and mrt fare had increased, taxi how?
Everytime the three party meet to discuss about cabbies problem,
nothing surface out of TD real concern. They call it the Tripartite
meeting, LTA, Taxis companies' bosses and the NTA leaders. The
agendas is alway shift toward their own gain, their rental, their
fuel charges, and their way and mean of reducing operation cost to
widen the profit margin for themselves, so not only COE is rocket
high, their CEO paid is also rocket high, and they need to sustain
that inorder to be in the rich class.
You alway said why transcab do not do this, do that, open more
CNG station, better toilet, better adminstration with effective and
efficiency local staffs rather than PRC and ah neh attendents, now
why?? because it concern operating cost, and when operating
cost goes up, their pocket get hurt, they rather you get hurt,
hungry and angry than they getting less return in net profit.
Stop playing game with the peak hours, just increase the goddam
fares meter prices across the board, and that 5.5 milllion peoples
will have no say at all. Singapore in a way of letting it cool and
forget it on the way, just like Mas selemat case, Durai NKF case,
etc etc, did you notice no one bother much about it anymore and
instead take it as a joke once a while, that is how our sg govt use
us all these while, cool it and they will forget it in time to
come. Same goes to taxi fares, you increase it, people make lots of
noise, after a while, people get use to it.
If govt is going to increase singaporean paid by 30%
by 2020, as a cabby, if your net intake now is let say
$4000 per mth, by 2020, your net intake must be $5200, anything
short of that, you will suffer and suffer more than what it is
today, cos by that time, the cost of living will be much
higher than now, and if you still earn $4000 in 2020, you self
inflation will be rocket high, meaning to say, spending
more than earning by certain percentage. It as simple as that, so
are you going to shift or extend the peak hour or are you going to
ask for fares increases by 50 cents now??