Do you find our taxis are a nuisance on our roads?

• pitchai

  17 Aug 05, 11:09

  Originally posted by PoRen:

  I believe the Traffice Police always close one eye for them compared to normal vehicles. I see so many taxis breaking rules on the roads all the time. They dun treasure their lives, but I treasure mine.

  U r lucky tat u don hv to drive taxi to earn a living.Sometime it's beyond them to break e rule.Y don u be a taxi driver for one month n see if u will behave like them?N i bet u will b one of them.U think u treasure ur life n taxi driver don treasure their life is it?R their life really worthless to u in ur eye?
  E words u say,E words u write,it will rebound back to u in another way.
  All human r equal.
• ndsef

  17 Aug 05, 11:28

  Originally posted by pitchai:

  U r lucky tat u don hv to drive taxi to earn a living.Sometime it's beyond them to break e rule.Y don u be a taxi driver for one month n see if u will behave like them?N i bet u will b one of them.U think u treasure ur life n taxi driver don treasure their life is it?R their life really worthless to u in ur eye?
  E words u say,E words u write,it will rebound back to u in another way.
  All human r equal.

  Earning a living is not an excuse to flout traffic regulations. I am in sales, and I drive around Singapore to meet clients for a living, does that give me the right to flout traffic rules?
  
  It seems that you are very defensive of the taxi drivers attitude. Then howabout bus drivers, lorry drivers and container trailer drivers? A lot of road users are making a living.
• sabaisabai

  17 Aug 05, 11:33

  Originally posted by ndsef:

  A lot of road users are making a living.

  Yes, but a taxi-driver's income is much more closely tied to how fast he can get across town or make that u turn to catch the passenger, competing with all the other taxis on the road in off-peak periods. Combine this with long hours, high overheads and low fares and you'll find taxi-drivers have a much higher incentive to flout road laws than other drivers.
  As for sales, your income should be primarily derived by how well you sell your product or service rather than how quickly you get to the destination.
• fai

  17 Aug 05, 14:11

  Complain to the government and tell them to get rid of the blind tissue sellers and musicians because their blocking pedestrians?
• BillyBong

  17 Aug 05, 14:47

  Originally posted by sabaisabai:

  Yes, but a taxi-driver's income is much more closely tied to how fast he can get across town or make that u turn to catch the passenger, competing with all the other taxis on the road in off-peak periods. Combine this with long hours, high overheads and low fares and you'll find taxi-drivers have a much higher incentive to flout road laws than other drivers.
  As for sales, your income should be primarily derived by how well you sell your product or service rather than how quickly you get to the destination.

  A lot of luck is needed as well to get good fares and the right passengers. Imagine ferrying a person who has no money or a commuter out ot rob you.
  
  Cab drivers can narrow down this uncertainty by isolating taxi stands with consistent crowds around SG. When all else fails, they can rely on these hot spots to confirm a passenger, then plan their monthly income accordingly.
  
  Speeding around isn't necessarily going to earn you more money. That's a common misconception.
• ShutterBug

  17 Aug 05, 17:17

  I Know that there are decent cabbies out there. There are taxi drivers with good driving manners and habits. But of late, since decent jobs are hard to come by, stressed out individual turned to Taxi driving. So what do you get?
  
  Frustrated bread winners, driving cabs.
  
  Then Taxi companies, take in any Tom, Dick, or Harry, to drive their Taxis just so the companies can make off their daily struggles on our roads. I don't think they give much of a crap what kind of mental state their "new" drivers are in, or if they're in the habit of cutting into people's path or lane, or are basically SPeed Demons inside.
  
  We're all living in a Commercial World Machine that sees not people, but MONEY.
  
  
• lotus999

  17 Aug 05, 17:56

  Originally posted by TwilightZone:

  Many of our taxis are definitely nuisances on our roads. There are countless accidents involving them or caused by them. A large number of taxi drivers are hot tempered and are emotionally unstable and I am sure most of us have encountered bad experiences with them either as passengers or road users.
  
  

  Do you know what the PTC found out? Accidents involving or caused by taxis are not caused by bad driving habits of cabbies but by fatigue!
  
  
• sbst275

  17 Aug 05, 17:57

  Originally posted by lotus999:

  Do you know what the PTC found out? Accidents involving or caused by taxis are not caused by bad driving habits of cabbies but by fatigue!
  
  

  They can't be bothered...
  
  They only want to earn more license $$