There’s not one single day that we Malaysian do not hear about how opportunistic these taxi drivers can be.

Sorry if I offend any good, well-mannered taxi drivers out there. I personally came across a few good ones, but from my own personal experience, the ratio of evil-taxi-drivers to good-taxi-drivers are maybe like 10:1.

The public transport system is regulated by various authorities, including the Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board (CVLB) of the Ministry of Entrepreneur and Co-operative Development, the Ministry of Transport and local governments such as the Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur and the other city and municipal councils.

There is no single body that regulates the whole sector.

No wonder the current regulation is not working…

Why should these taxi-drivers be regulated by a single entity? Because they never seemed to learn and seldom do we see them being accountable for their “vices”. With proper strict regulations, you have a system that can ensure quality and weeding out the bad crops that has tainted the taxi industry for ages.

Why should there be enforcement to make these taxi-hooligans behave? This can only mean that something is very wrong with the system that these taxi-drivers are being allowed to carry out their business. Each offense they committed should be penalized heavy enough that it can eventually strip them off their taxi-permit.

These taxi-hooligans are killing the tourist industry and with Visit Malaysia Year 2007, they are doing a pretty good job!

Pirated taxies are having a field day at the Penang International Airport after the Road Transport Department (JPJ) stopped its enforcement operations there.

Limousine drivers at the airport claimed that their earnings had dropped by 40% with the presence of such taxis.

Penang Airport Limousine Drivers Association chairman Noor Ashikin Amman said enforcement action had stopped for the past five days.

The Star Online

Like it or not, taxi-drivers are the receptionist to the millions of tourists that lands in Malaysia everyday. And I really don’t think we have been putting any focus on these receptionist. And forget about junks like these, you really think people traveled few thousand kilometers to see this?

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