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Nov 7, 2009
No to 7th taxi firm <!--10 min-->
THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) has turned down a marine company's application to be the seventh taxi operator here. Tiong Asia Marine, which repairs, paints and cleans boilers for the shipping industry, applied in May, despite signs that the market was overcrowded. An LTA spokesman said it had rejected the application 'after due consideration'. No reason was given. Since the cab industry was liberalised in 2003, four newcomers have joined incumbents SMRT and ComfortDelGro. There are now around 24,700 cabs on the road - from just over 19,000 in 2003. But taxi ridership figures have been sliding. For the financial year ended March, average cab ridership was 907,000 a day - down from 927,000 the year before and a record 991,000 three years ago.
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"Since your company is in the marine business , please apply to PSA for Water Taxi license...
N ERP on water yet..
Land Taxi.. to many already..."
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Kokoobird, you may have something there. Consider this, singapore is afterall surrounded by water. Why not have a water taxi license. We can have many drop off jetty points around our island and it also helps to save on travelling and you get to avoid all the ERPs and traffic on land if for instance you need to go from east to west for example.
Interesting idea and concept!! LTA should try to explore this....
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: sg_unemployed at Sat Nov 07 21:51:24 SGT 2009
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If buses do not pay ERP charges then why are taxi commuters to bear ERP charges. If we waive ERP and all the do-not-make-sense charges , then the cost of riding cabs will go down, demand will go up, then we increase supply......... that way there will be less cars on the road as there are lots of taxis availiable as in all major cities in the world.
We can always mandate taxi companies to operate at different time of the day to ensure that supply and demand meet peak and off-peak time slot. With all the ERP infrastructure, we are now able to track all our taxis cheaply.
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: kjks at Sat Nov 07 20:01:37 SGT 2009
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LTA should not protect the taxi companies to let them maximise profit.
The new taxi will come with a bang cheap and simple.
$2.00 flag down 10 cents every 100m
$2.00 booking charges
No peak hour charges
No 30 % peak charges
No CBD take off charges
No price fixing
Normal 50% midnight charges
All these will wake up every other taxi company.
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: anthonlibeth at Sat Nov 07 18:11:38 SGT 2009
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Thank you very much for your kind explanation. If you are planning to visit Taipei City, please let me know. I'll buy you and your friends a lunch.
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: FengFeiFei at Sat Nov 07 17:05:12 SGT 2009
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vely simpler lah,
1) $3.00 on larger part of meter - flag down fare.
2) $4.00on smaller part of meter - $3.00 CBD surcharge and
$1.00 peak period surcharge (35% of $3.00 in larger part of meter)
3) $1.75 is running charge plus 35% peak period surcharge.
so, big part is flag down & running fare and small part is extras charges.
Confusing?, I as Taxi driver also sometime "liat bo kiu" but just follow law lor.
You want better explains, maybe better to ask LTA or Taxi company.
Hope have give you some idea and not so blur, blur anymore.
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: 2LANcabby at Sat Nov 07 15:27:04 SGT 2009
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Nov 7, 2009
No to 7th taxi firm <!--10 min-->
THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) has turned down a marine company's application to be the seventh taxi operator here. Tiong Asia Marine, which repairs, paints and cleans boilers for the shipping industry, applied in May, despite signs that the market was overcrowded. An LTA spokesman said it had rejected the application 'after due consideration'. No reason was given. Since the cab industry was liberalised in 2003, four newcomers have joined incumbents SMRT and ComfortDelGro. There are now around 24,700 cabs on the road - from just over 19,000 in 2003. But taxi ridership figures have been sliding. For the financial year ended March, average cab ridership was 907,000 a day - down from 927,000 the year before and a record 991,000 three years ago.
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<table style="width: 100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left"><table style="width: 100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left"><table class="Post" style="width: 100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">kokoobird REPORT POST:-
"Since your company is in the marine business , please apply to PSA for Water Taxi license...
N ERP on water yet..
Land Taxi.. to many already..."
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Kokoobird, you may have something there. Consider this, singapore is afterall surrounded by water. Why not have a water taxi license. We can have many drop off jetty points around our island and it also helps to save on travelling and you get to avoid all the ERPs and traffic on land if for instance you need to go from east to west for example.
Interesting idea and concept!! LTA should try to explore this....
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: sg_unemployed at Sat Nov 07 21:51:24 SGT 2009
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If buses do not pay ERP charges then why are taxi commuters to bear ERP charges. If we waive ERP and all the do-not-make-sense charges , then the cost of riding cabs will go down, demand will go up, then we increase supply......... that way there will be less cars on the road as there are lots of taxis availiable as in all major cities in the world.
We can always mandate taxi companies to operate at different time of the day to ensure that supply and demand meet peak and off-peak time slot. With all the ERP infrastructure, we are now able to track all our taxis cheaply.
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: kjks at Sat Nov 07 20:01:37 SGT 2009
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LTA should not protect the taxi companies to let them maximise profit.
The new taxi will come with a bang cheap and simple.
$2.00 flag down 10 cents every 100m
$2.00 booking charges
No peak hour charges
No 30 % peak charges
No CBD take off charges
No price fixing
Normal 50% midnight charges
All these will wake up every other taxi company.
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: anthonlibeth at Sat Nov 07 18:11:38 SGT 2009
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Thank you very much for your kind explanation. If you are planning to visit Taipei City, please let me know. I'll buy you and your friends a lunch.
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: FengFeiFei at Sat Nov 07 17:05:12 SGT 2009
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vely simpler lah,
1) $3.00 on larger part of meter - flag down fare.
2) $4.00on smaller part of meter - $3.00 CBD surcharge and
$1.00 peak period surcharge (35% of $3.00 in larger part of meter)
3) $1.75 is running charge plus 35% peak period surcharge.
so, big part is flag down & running fare and small part is extras charges.
Confusing?, I as Taxi driver also sometime "liat bo kiu" but just follow law lor.
You want better explains, maybe better to ask LTA or Taxi company.
Hope have give you some idea and not so blur, blur anymore.
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: 2LANcabby at Sat Nov 07 15:27:04 SGT 2009
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