Thursday, April 22, 2010

Metro hasn't dented taxi business, say cab drivers

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2010/April/theuae_April470.xml§ion=theuae
I do sympathize with the cabbies' overall decline in business, although I can't help but feel a little smug reading this line:

With greater competition and fewer passengers, one perennial complaint against cab drivers has come down significantly — that of being choosy when it came to picking up passengers. Now, they can’t afford to do that.


This used to be a major annoyance, cabbies choosing only long-trip and/or high-demand-destination passengers. Some of them still do this, as I have witnessed in heated negotiations at taxi points. A couple of years back, getting cabs for a journey within the old town was near impossible due to this practice, and overall higher demand.

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