Merc Cabs at Clarke Quay
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This is called "Airport-Transfer" service , flat rate $35 .Originally posted by alleggerita:There IS a legal flat fare thingy though..I know since I've worked at Comfort before..they only flat fare thingy is when u book a Merc cab, regardless of whether is it advance or current booking, and you wanna go airport..So if u book Merc cab to go airport, it's a flat rate plus the booking fee..i think it's around $35 excluding booking fees.. -
I go for meter too when I visit my family in Singapore, and they better damn not rip me off, cause I will/ have complain to LTAOriginally posted by Poolman:Merc Cabs at that time , they don't service local customers , they "fish" for Ang-Mos ......
Why don't service local customers ? Same what ? Still taxi ... u may asked !
$$$ different la ....
Local people have to go by meter ..... where got "meat" ? From Clarke to Boat Quay , meter $4.00 , ang-mo $15 for one short trip like that .
Ang-Mo tourist pay and say "Thank-You very much " , local pay and complaint to LTA , and write to St Forum the next day !
Ang-Mo they go by "per-trip" - $15 to $35 per trip , depending on distance !
Locals never say "YES" to per trip , locals go by meter , even if they can afford $35 , they will complaint later . -
was hanging around the clarke quay taxi stand the other day around 10/11pm, as usual the human queue was long. Mercedes cab waiting at the side of the road waiting for "roberts" to approach. noticed one frustrated ang moh came walking towards one of the merc cabs. after a short exchange, the ang moh shouted to his partner waiting at the queue to come forward, exclaimed the price of $35 flat fee or continue queueing like a fool.
they chose to be "robert" for the day.
Question is...
Why only mercedes cab or van practice this? Why not the usual toyota crown taxis? -
'No touting' sign but cabbies choose fares
ON SUNDAY night I was at the Clark Quay taxi stand, queuing for a taxi. A sign there says: 'No touting, 24-hour camera surveillance...'. Right in front of the taxi stand were two limousine taxis whose drivers stood outside smoking. Farther down were several other taxis with their drivers standing outside.
I was wondering why they did not pick up passengers from the taxi stand. A few minutes later, a taxi driver came to ask a Bangladeshi man where he was headed. The taxi driver then yelled to another driver in Hokkien: '$12 to Mustafa, want or not?' The second taxi driver agreed and the man followed him to the taxi and was driven away.
I tried calling Premier Taxi to book a cab but to no avail. Ironically, I saw many vacant Premier taxis passing by. No driver turned into the taxi stand. Those passengers who managed to get a taxi at the taxi stand did so only because the taxis came in to drop off passengers.
What is touting? What is the 24-hour camera surveillance for? What is a taxi stand for?
Most of the people at the taxi stand were foreigners. What will they think of our country?
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Do some taxi drivers prefer tourists? STOMPer Jack thinks so.
He was at Clarke Quay on Sunday (24 June) at 10.30pm when he came across some Mercedes taxi drivers who appeared to be showing they have favourites.
According to him, there was a long queue of people waiting at the taxi stand, but just one or two taxis came in to pick up passengers.
What peeved him was that there were some empty white and silver Mercedes taxis waiting down the road beyond the taxi stand. Jack is convinced they were waiting for tourists.
He suggested that taxi companies conduct spot checks on the Clarke Quay taxi stand regularly to stop these cab drivers from choosing their customers.
"This is giving Singapore a BAD reputation in TAXI services!" he warns. -
45-year-old STOMPer Alvin, was at Clarke Quay on 31 July at 8:30pm when he noticed these taxi touts who seemed oblivious that what they were doing blatantly flouted traffic rules and therefore illegal.
"The taxi touts were just standing there with their vehicles parked at the perimeter of the taxi stand, where a double yellow line zone was."
An incensed Alvin, who was waiting in the Clarke Quay taxi queue, proceeded to capture this act.
"Locals know about the taxi touts so the touts never approach the locals. Instead, they target the foreigners and this leaves such a bad impression of Singapore for tourists!"
Alvin says that he has seen these touts around before and while this group of taxi touts seemed to be merely ‘looking and waiting’, the taxi touts that Alvin has encountered previously on several occasions were more aggressive.
"The taxis did not have 'hired' or 'on-call' signs, the touts were approaching any group of foreigners they saw!"
Alvin wonders why these taxi touts continue to exist even when "everyone knows about them."
"Why is it that the relevant authorities, such as the LTA and Traffic Police as well as taxi companies do not take steps or a preventive measure against such taxi touts?" -
Crown have la ..... just that they do it more at Boat Quay , and on the road ..... or Mariamanam Temple off South Bridge Road , or Orchard Tower the most , equally good money .Originally posted by madcampus:was hanging around the clarke quay taxi stand the other day around 10/11pm, as usual the human queue was long. Mercedes cab waiting at the side of the road waiting for "roberts" to approach. noticed one frustrated ang moh came walking towards one of the merc cabs. after a short exchange, the ang moh shouted to his partner waiting at the queue to come forward, exclaimed the price of $35 flat fee or continue queueing like a fool.
they chose to be "robert" for the day.
Question is...
Why only mercedes cab or van practice this? Why not the usual toyota crown taxis?
also Boat Quay no camera surveilliance ma ....