Tag Archives: TAXI

Dear All Singapore Stuff, I would like to share with you on this situation which happened to me when i rented a car from Getgo. To summarize, i got into a minor accident with a taxi driver which was ruled not in my favour. I have taken up insurance excess which …

A taxi driver posted on Facebook claiming that two passengers vomited and refused to pay. The taxi driver claimed that they are Airforce regulars, judging from the t-shirts they are wearing. The netizen said: “A airforce regular fare evader. Wonder militant in Singapore of such conduct.Pick up 23 Sep 0338hrs …

The Covid19 pandemic has hit the taxi business hard in Singapore. Empathising with the situation, a kind Transcab passenger gave her taxi driver $90 tips for a 9-minute ride which only cost $10.47. No, it was not a mistake, it was intentional.

CDG (Comfort Delgro) and SMRT waive their taxi rental in accordance with Circuit Breaker (CB) till 1st June. Transcab however has (allegedly) sent its drivers SMS stating reduced rental to begin from 6th May. How to afford rental then? Why can't they follow suit and wait till after CB to reinstate rentals.

However, what is less spoken about is the impact that the virus has on taxi drivers and private hire drivers. With number of confirmed cases increasing, and cases of local transmission being confirmed, less and less people are going to expose themselves to unnecessary interaction with strangers. Thus, people would choose to stay home and indoors, rather than travel out. And even if they travel out, most would most likely arrange for their own transportation, with people they know and trust.

Just two weeks after the LTA allowed all taxis and private hire cars to have inward facing cameras in their vehicles, they are now allowing these inward facing cameras to record audio too. LTA released a statement to that effect, citing a governmental study that indicated 90% of respondents were in favour of such recordings.

An SMRT taxi driver who blacked out and hit a group of pedestrians, killing a woman, had no recollection of the accident after he woke up. He did not even realised he had killed a 66 year old woman.

A cyclist, in his bid to avoid getting humiliated after falling off his bike, was seen on video blaming a taxi driver who was near his vicinity of the fall instead. In the video, the cyclist fell down hard onto the pavement, but it was clearly seen that his front wheel got caught on a drain cover by the road. But as everyone else had seen from the video, the cyclist clearly fell of his own accord, as he had overtaken a stationary taxi, and the taxi was not even moving between the time he overtook it and fell.

This gonna be a length post on taxi fares vs PHVs. I'll summarize it as much as I can based on my own experience. One sentence summary is : Taxi fares is hard to compete with PHV fares. The rest, read on..on fares, pax, and driver.

A taxi driver shared this heartwarming story which will restore your faith in humanity.