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Taxis queuing for people at Vivocity and Harbour Front. All I have to say is… 风水轮流转。过去人等车，现在车等人。康福德高，此大恩大德，我想德士师傅将会没齿难忘。[Translation: The tables has turned. In the past passengers wait for cab, now cab wait for people. Comfort Delgro, I suppose cabbies has a lot to thank for your great kindness.] I took these two photos with my Nokia 7290 while walking around Vivocity before catching the movie Lust . Caution on New Year’s Day. (More on the movie later.) Taxi, taxi everywhere. Is the dearth of passengers a result of all the partying on New Year’s Eve? If not, how long can we keep this up to the point the taxi companies realise that the only way to help cabbies is for them to cut the freaking rent and not by increasing fares? How long will it take them to realize that the surcharge system should go? Keep this up, Singapore. Show these bloody sucking cab companies what we are capable of!! But even so, I doubt the fare system will ever change but I can already guess the solution to this predicament at Vivocity and Harbour Front. Just as usual… more surcharges! $5 for a cab out of Vivocity and Harbour Front! Frankly, you don’t even need someone to be of the “calibre” of our million dollar mini$ter$ to come up with such a ‘bright idea’ . In fact, I believe 福哥 from China in our coffee shop can think of this as well. And it will cost us probably far lesser money to pay 福哥 to do it. Foreign talent, you know? |
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 Taxi Queue – Vivocity |
 Taxi Queue – Harbour Front |
Song: Sing to “Every Breathe you take”
Every move I take… *deng deng deng deng deng deng deng deng* I see them around~
They never used to be.. anywhere round me before price increase~
Every move YOU take.’.. *deng deng deng deng deng deng deng deng* is to earn my lui~
You should have reduced rent but I guess you never~ even give a Damn!
*coughbycoughthemuxicboxcough*
hahaha!! 福哥…
Dun worry .. soon they will increase Bus and Train fare to drive us back to the cabs …
CC: I don’t see them quitting or refusing to pay the rent as viable though. In the end, they still suffer. Most of the cab drivers are, like you said, without alternatives else they’d have gone for those opportunities earlier. Refusing to pay rent will just see their rented cabs re-possessed.
I agree with most who have commented on this issue before either on other blogs or online forums — that the best way is to lower rentals and remove surcharges.
I’ll even go as far to suggest that they have rentals pegged at a percentage of earnings that a cab driver makes per day, so that there’s vested interest from the part of the cab companies to ensure that their drivers do get customers. As for how much a cab driver earns daily, I’m sure it can be tagged from the meter and somehow transmitted to the cab companies on some periodic basis.
cc> 有啊。Tamiya 的 模型。比例 1/32 的。 LOL!!
keropokman> Yep. The tables have turned. I am hoping it stays that way.
sicarii> I agree with you. And it’s unlikely cabbies will call it quits and find other jobs because if they can find other jobs they would have done so a long time ago. But this is what I liked to see – cabbies calling it quits, or cabbies continuing to drive their cabs, but refuses to pay the rent, though considering Singaporeans, that’s even harder than Ethiopia putting a man on the Moon.
Sigh, in the end who suffers but us serfs on the ground?
Frankly, the cab companies won’t suffer because they still get their money from the fixed rentals that cab drivers have to pay to rent the cabs daily. And if they don’t feel the pinch, why would they care two hoots?
The cab drivers and their families are the ones suffering now.
it seems they are more cabs with green lights instead of red on the roads nowadays.
他駕 BMW 寶馬車嗎?
cc> 还姓马呢。取代那混帐的马宝山最好不过。
福哥 = fcuker?