No taxis at OOL Boxing Day

[markis10]

Taxi drivers are striking in protest at fixed priced fares and won't be at OOL Boxing Day.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Honestly, how this industry is allowed to get away with what a large number of its participants do is disgraceful.

 

[JohnK]

They obviously have no desire to continue working. Revoke their taxi licences and lets start from scratch with taxi drivers who want to work.

 

[Hvr]

They obviously have no desire to continue working. Revoke their taxi licences and lets start from scratch with taxi drivers who want to work.

Agree, and make the licence valid for 12 months and they have to prove they have been of good character and provided a service at each renewal.

 

[medhead]

Sounds like communism to me. I didn't realise AFF was full of people who believe in forcing people to work for the good of the collective. Self determinism? Free market? Stuff that, hey?

Btw, when I had a driver's authorisation it had a 12 or 24 month renewal period, with medical and it cost about $300 or $400.

 

[Andyc]

Sounds like communism to me.

I agree. Get rid of supply constraints and fixed pricing.... let the market take care of the rest.

 

[medhead]

I agree. Get rid of supply constraints and fixed pricing.... let the market take care of the rest.

Sounds like a great way to drop taxi standards further.

I feel like ranting further about the communists on AFF who demand that a business must be there at their whim just waiting in case they might wish to use the service. That a business in a free enterprise society does not had the right to determine when and where they conduct their business. Communism writ large!

 

[Must...Fly!]

Sounds like a great way to drop taxi standards further.

I feel like ranting further about the communists on AFF who demand that a business must be there at the whim just waiting in case they might wish to use the service. That a business in a free enterprise society does not had the right to determine when and where they conduct their business. Communism writ large!

I don't expect to have a taxi waiting for me every time I want one nor to not have to wait in a long queue on a busy day at the airport but what I do expect is that when I get in to the cab I do not feel like I have just entered a small cabin that's been sitting, derelict, in the middle of a hot summer in the equatorial climates. Likewise I don't expect to treated like rubbish/yelled at because my destination does not suit where the driver wants to be nor a request for the air conditioner to be turned on met with carrying on about how the window is open...on the freeway at 100km/h...

After all I'm the one paying $60 for a 20 minute ride...

 

[medhead]

I don't expect to have a taxi waiting for me every time I want one nor to not have to wait in a long queue on a busy day at the airport but what I do expect is that when I get in to the cab I do not feel like I have just entered a small cabin that's been sitting, derelict, in the middle of a hot summer in the equatorial climates. Likewise I don't expect to treated like rubbish/yelled at because my destination does not suit where the driver wants to be nor a request for the air conditioner to be turned on met with carrying on about how the window is open...on the freeway at 100km/h...

After all I'm the one paying $60 for a 20 minute ride...

Ah! All fine points that you might like to raise in the thread on those topics. This thread is about taxis that are not available for the good of the proletariat.

 

[Simo]

Doesn't sound right.

Fixed price cab fares.

You would never get the scenic ride to where ever you wanted to go.

 

[Mal]

Fixed cab fares work well on many cities.

 

[Hvr]

Fixed cab fares work well on many cities.

Having used a New York cab from JFK to the city with a fixed fare I reckon if it can work there, then it can work everywhere.


The problem with taxis in Australia is that you literally take your life into your hands with the ignorant, ill trained and sometimes criminal types who drive them. Main street and suburb knowledge are in many instances non-existent.

If you're stupid enough to use your credit card in a taxi you will be charged usurious fees and more than likely suffer credit card fraud (esp MEL).

Assaults by drivers, especially sexual assaults against women are epidemic. Yet the various state taxi directorates put customer service last on their priorities with their incessant whinging about the 'value of their plates'. Well if they actually provided half decent customer service they would make a fortune.

 

[turtlemichael]

Having used a New York cab from JFK to the city with a fixed fare I reckon if it can work there, then it can work everywhere.

If you can make it [work] there, you can make it anywhere.

 

[JohnK]

The problem with taxis in Australia is that you literally take your life into your hands with the ignorant, ill trained and sometimes criminal types who drive them. Main street and suburb knowledge are in many instances non-existent.

There is one very easy solution. Go out of your way not to use cabs even if it means spending an extra 30-60 minutes to get to where you want to go.

Taxis are for me the last resort.

 

[medhead]

Well if they actually provided half decent customer service they would make a fortune.

Yeah. That was tried in Brisbane in the 1990s failed for a few reasons. Probably poor management being among them. But the biggest most massive issue was the closed shop monopoly of cabcharge and the duopoly of yellow and black and white taxis.

 

[Awesom Andy]

It works in NYC, and in a much different country on the other side of the world, it also works in KUL. I would guess that most places in the middle of those 2 could probably make something out of this if they want to.

 

[froggerADL]

There is one very easy solution. Go out of your way not to use cabs even if it means spending an extra 30-60 minutes to get to where you want to go.

Taxis are for me the last resort.

Me too....

 

[Isochronous]

The taxi license plate system is a rort. The state governments should flood the market with $1 plates but just impose steep fines on cabbies for not wearing uniform/not maintaining cleanliness etc. That would allow a proper market for taxi services to exist.

 

[medhead]

The taxi license plate system is a rort. The state governments should flood the market with $1 plates but just impose steep fines on cabbies for not wearing uniform/not maintaining cleanliness etc. That would allow a proper market for taxi services to exist.

Yeah, 'cause dropping the qualification requirements is going to improve standards. (Love to heard why you think plates are a rort.) That is just going to make the situation worse. Current taxi plate owners have an investment to protect. A $1 plate is going to bring even more rogues into the industry. Besides taxpayers are not prepared to pay governments to regulate things these days. Who is going to issue these fines?

 

[notzac]

This is exactly why Uber is awesome. Can't wait for it to be available in more cities.