By Jane Ritikos
KUALA LUMPUR(Malaysia): Taxi drivers will be allowed to do side businesses by selling packet drinks and phonecards to passengers.
Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Minister Dat...
A taxi driver's lament
Lee Keng Fai
Fri, Oct 26, 2007
The Straits Times
LATELY many readers have written to the forum pages complaining about taxi drivers. The complaints range from taxi surcharges and shortage of taxis to the behaviour of taxi drivers. I am prompted to write in to explain.
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Man hit by cab, dies
A MAN, in his 20s, died of severe head injuries after he was hit by a taxi on Tuesday night.
The accident happened along Dairy Farm Road. He was taken to hospital but died three hours later.
Witnesses can call the Traffic Police Hotline at 1800-547-1818.
Inconsiderate cabby stops along exit lane
STOMPer Bluesher was appalled by the inconsiderate behaviour of this taxi driver, who stopped his vehicle along an exit lane, disrupting traffic and inconvenienc...
Second violent cabby strike
BEIJING - MORE than 200 taxi drivers in southern China smashed cars and besieged a government office in the country's second such strike in a week, an official and state media said on Monday.
The cabbies gathered at the government headquarters in the city of Sanya on Ha...
An SMART taxi driver, whom STOMPer Gigi said brought her to a Police Post instead of her requested destination, has been given a stern warning and barred from taking company bookings for one month.
Earlier, STOMPer Gigi had recounted the unpleasant taxi ride which she had with her boyfriend on Oct...
A STOMPer said this Caucasian man stopped a taxi at a traffic junction between Shenton Way and Cross Street just before midnight yesterday (Mar 27), and behave like a &quo...
Taxis cause traffic congestion outside Tampines Century Square
STOMPer Blackhouse is annoyed with the daily traffic congestion caused by queueing taxis outside Tampines Century Square.
In an email to S...
Why not just ban cars? Transport Ministry says....
Maria Almenoar
Mon, Sep 08, 2008
The Straits Times
Grouse: The intent of ERP is to stop people from driving.
MOT: If that is the intent, it would be easier for the Government to just ban cars. But this would be counterproductive, after havi...
One full boot, one lost bag
By Amanda Yong
THE boot was packed to the brim.
There were already two boxes and one large piece of luggage stuffed inside.
One more item remained - a small black nylon luggage bag m...
Hi.
I just want to know if taxi driving is affected by the current economic situation. How is it on the streets now?
I am considering to drive as a relief.
Thank you.
Why charge me $1 extra on working day?
To the bafflement of a cab user, an extra $1 was billed to his cab account, and he is perplexed at this surcharge imposed.
Zumanity emailed STOMP, and said:
"I boa...
Prime to roll out 8-seater petrol cabs by month end
DAWN TAY
Thu, Oct 23, 2008
My Paper
As the price gap between petrol and CNG has narrowed, Prime Taxis will roll out its first batch of eight-seater petrol cabs at the end of the month.
Twenty auto 1.5-litre Honda Freed models will hit the stre...
That day found a wallet at the back of the seat
and reported to CDG and handed it to the police post
Today check the DOES website and there's a merit record of 3 points
Any bro know what is the use of the point system ?
Got $$$ or not har ?
CERTAIN roads in the civic district will be closed on Sunday for the Great Eastern Women's 10 km run.
They will close from 2 am and reopen in stages between 9.15am and 11.30am.
The roads to be affected are:
1. St. Andrew's Road (between the junction of Coleman Street and Connaught Drive)
2. Two r...
I have posted some good makan lobang at the OLD sites... since this is the new home ..... I will post some NEW lobangs.... hope you guy like it... Lobang (1) : Õý˳ÖíʲÌÀ/Öí½Å·¹¡£¡£¡£ Clementi West St 2 , Blk 726, (hawker Ctr),, stall #01-142 ................. Go and try it ,,, and you will love it!... t...
Oct 20, 2008
New PIE gantry starts Nov 3
Rates go up at two other gantries; rest unchanged
THE new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantry along the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) will begin charging from Nov 3.
Motorists heading westbound on the PIE before Eunos Link from 7am to 7.30am will have t...
IT CAN be a nightmare for cabbies when customers ask to be taken to a particular hotel.
This is especially when several hotels have had name changes in recent months.
The former Le Meridien hotel in Orchard Road is now called the Concorde Hotel. If it sounds familiar, that is the old name of the curre...
Just started to tabulated some statistics to judge performance The fuel is base on formula 10km = $1.40 and 1.4 / 1.33 ltrs Comments welcome, if you need this worksheet just PM me -- Edited by music at 14:20, 2008-09-16-- Edited b...
One thing which the cabbies & the prostitues facing the same thing daily is they are meeting many customers with mostly with normal smell and sometime having horrible smell when they board your taxi. Your nature reation is hoping they can come out your taxi as soon as possible so you drive as fast a...
rec'd luv letter with composition $50 fine knn
in july i turned into bayshore road...there's a TS with 5 yellow boxes...all occupied but i saw one pax about to board the 1st cab on d Q...so i joined the last one...however the 1st cab took so long to move out with pax boarded...so this TP who convenientl...
drive safe always
"I was late for school just now (on Oct 15).
"It's all because of a traffic jam at the junction of Jurong West Avenue 5 and Pioneer Road north.
"It happened around 6am and l...
Guys
I need some help on this...
Some inconsiderate passenger brought fish into my cab n soiled my boot canvas .....I did not know the fishy problem till some hours later
The fishy smell started to get worse with each passing hour ..till my last passenger had to wind down his window ...
I have wa...
When a taxi uncle told me that wearing sunglasses when driving
in the rain can see clearer, I was quite sceptical until i tried it
It really works, probably due to the refraction being polarized away
