Of taxis and such

I've given up on flagging a taxi on this last day of my Ops duty. To hell even if the company pays for my cab fare. I'll rely on the trusty old bus. Who knows I might even be faster than waiting and eventually getting a cab say in 15-20mins time.

The perennial issue about these taxis/cabs (yea we are Singaporeans afterall... so both meant the same to us) is that it is not around when you needed it most, it comes when not many are in the queue and then they had the taxis queued up long one after another waiting for passengers which will only come in drips and drabs.

And my angst with the Transport authority is that this issue will never be resolved. Or they choose to ignore it. Just like the overcrowding of the trains, roads, buses, slowness of the buses, fare hikes etc. Hence, it leads back to the government. Hence, a clear message will need to be sent - to hell of we need to repent or not. At least, in talking terms, the gates of hell is waiting for you and creeping closer than it is for us. That xia-xue dumb fake blondie should be dragged into with the afore-mentioned. Nonsense.

For many years people have been saying that there is a need to distinguish the COEs for cars and taxis but do they listen? For every new taxi that sits at the taxi company's depot, there is one less quota for the normal cars. And as they rake up more taxis, yet unable to find drivers for these taxis, the number of cars goes up and then they blame it on Singaporeans being affordable to buy cars - that some even have more than one. *stranggle*

Then when you talk about the wonderful taxi drivers, whenever the news reports, 85% of these drivers will say "yah, business is quite bad. We wish the government can help... yadda yadda yadda... Taxi company should blahblahblah". Guess where they were when the passengers were a plenty? Hide lor. Wait for the wonderful peak period surcharge, midnight surcharge, airport surcharge. And they still dare!