Taxi Fares
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A few months back , i was questioning , why did all smaller taxi companies not doing anything to the peak hour surcharges ? All talk only ??
They stupid la to wait for Comfort to do something .... They must merge these resolution to make Comfort follow .
If Smart , Transcab , SilverCab and Prime start announcing their fleet has no peak hour surcharge , Comfort this time will follow suit .
Stupid la if they wait for Comfort .... they wait they die .
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Second cars for taxis ? Already so many taxi on the road , still wanna suggest such crap ?
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This Prime chief idiot la ..... dunno the market too well , now it's not the shortage of taxi , it's shortage of demands .
His suggestion makes no logic .
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The move will be like that ...
Smart , Prime , Silvr and Transcab start rolling waiving off peak hour surcharge .
Then commuters boycott Citycab and Comfort , and chose those non-peak hour taxi .... Comfort and Citycab drivers income dropped even further , switch company , Comfort got hit , then they follow .
Who win ?
Drivers won , small companies won , commuters won , comfort don't lose a single cent of this .
Only buses and train affected a bit .
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Still Singapore cabbies good citizens , no guts to protest , unlike HongKong , Taiwan and Korea drivers ....especially HK drivers , any buay song , they'll make the authority aware of their needs and agonies .
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In fact , if all drivers , chose just a day no driving , as a form of protest , they eventually will win .... nothing in vain la , i don't see the old drivers wanna do such thing .
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pool, no surcharge will have alot of demand back? i think no leh.... any protest should be directed to cut rental lah... e.g. from $52 cut to $42.... why landlord cut rental but taxi company no need? like that then can reduce fare mah... anyway me very angry with taxi companies... knn
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Cut rental for just $10 ?
U choose rental cut ? No , i chose lower peak hour surcharge , if not cut away the peak hour surcharge .
If peak hour go back just $1 , and the demand goes up to +10% , i can add at least $18.00 to my current wages .
To reduce the peak hour surcharge , i am anticipating just 10% more demand if not more .
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i been through the Asian Financial crisis , sars crisis , World Trade Centre collapsed crisis , Bali bomb crisis ..... It's a money world , money makes the world go round .
To chose rental cut and peak hour cut .... i chose the latter .
Rental cut beneficial to "motivation slacken" drivers ( so called kopi shop cabbies ), peak hour surcharge motivate hardworking drivers .
Have a think .
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Now COE only $691 .... looked like the LTA don't favour a change in the taxi pricing .
The logic is ..... 1.if they lower the price , car buyers % go down further , revenue down !
2.Bus and MRT takers % down , revenue down !
3.If taxi fare is cheaper than owning a car , or cheaper than taking a bus or MRT , then again , against their policy .
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2 companies definitely don't favour a price reduction exercise , SMRT and ComfortDelgro , who operate the 2 train lines and bus services .
One and only way ... Smart , Silver , TransCab and Prime , merge into one lower pricing , then SMRT and ComfortDelgro lan lan will follow .
If they don't follow , many hirers will jump ship . Whatever benefit u can give .
Still dunno why the smaller companies don't make use of the current economy situation , and lower the pricing altogether , it defintely will benefit them , as well as commuters and drivers .
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agreed..
sometimes I wish they could just make up their own decisions instead of waiting for the bigger player which in this case is comfort..
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Hi all,
I would like to ask something....
If from Clarke Quay (the Cannery there) - Bedok South - Aljunied
Boarding period is after 12am. Traffic is clear. Not much vehicles around.
how much does the cab fares cost roughly?
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clark to bedok south after 12am is about $16....back to aljunied should be about $23
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Still no news from Taxi companies on how they want to help taxi drivers during this downturn when there are less pax taking cabs???
less pax = less income for all cabbies...
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Originally posted by ALN:
clark to bedok south after 12am is about $16….back to aljunied should be about $23
Your price is via Nicholl Highway , is it ?By ECP maybe abit more ...but not much la .
Depends on Nicholl Highway or ECP .
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Originally posted by Max888:
Still no news from Taxi companies on how they want to help taxi drivers during this downturn when there are less pax taking cabs???
less pax = less income for all cabbies...
That's why i quit out of protest .How i wish Singapore cabbies were like those counterpart from HK , any Garmen or company hiccup , STRIKE !!!!!
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assuming if I were to take cab from tampines giant hypermarket all the way to simei st 1..
what is the fare approx like..
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without surcharge should be $5 to $6
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Originally posted by ALN:
without surcharge should be $5 to $6
hmm ..... TPE out .... exit Up Changi Road road .... around $7.00 more appropriate . -
this route i took many times,giant-tpe-pie-simei rd around $6.50 normal hrs