Ban Grab And Other E-Hailing Taxi Services?

The PH government is too soft on the taxi drivers and associations. These people need to realise that no one owes them a living. You have to do a day's honest work to earn a living like everyone else.

If the taxi drivers can't compete it is because they have failed to provide the service expected of them by the public who have long suffered their arrogance.

With the advent of e-hailing taxi services, people have now opted out of riding the traditional taxis because they are mostly rundown, dirty and smelly, with rude drivers who choose where they want to go not where the long suffering passengers want to, and overcharge to boot.

The government can either tell the taxi drivers and associations to buck up or close shop. Not try to mollycoddle them by making Grab and other e-hailing taxis subject to onerous regulations  just so as to 'level' the playing field for the nonperforming traditional taxi service.

Requirement 4 for passengers to upload their IC or passport - what the heck!

Not only is riding e-hailing taxis safer and convenient by a long mile, but also because it it cheaper by the same in most cases.

Instead of giving face to and trying to mollycoddle the hopeless, nonperforming and recalcitrant, if not impossible to reform, traditional taxi service, the government should encourage competition in the e-hailing taxi services by breaking up the virtual monopoly of Grab and bringing back Uber as a viable competitor.

Since Uber has been absorbed, Grab has not been performing as well they did and now there are  fewer offers of free (and no more 2 ringgit) rides for short distances. The minimum is 5 ringgit ride.

Competition is always good for everyone.

Either the PH government break up Grab's virtual monopoly or invite China's Didi in as a viable competitor. Or some other reliable e-hailing taxi company.

And unless the traditional taxi service seriously thinks of bucking up and wants to compete by doing a good and honest job, the government should not waste its previous time trying to accommodate a service now rejected by the people by and large.

Whatever the PH government decides to do, don't ever think of banning e-hailing taxi services just to be in the good books of the taxi drivers and associations.

Otherwise, PH can forget about being returned to office come the next general election.

If traditional taxi drivers can't compete what is to stop them from becoming Grab or other e-hailing company drivers??

No one owes anyone a living. You have to earn your own honest upkeep.

Bolehland needs to move on.

Update:  8/9 out of 10 comments to the video below on Grab vs traditional taxi are not in favour of the latter. That should inform the government that the people are unhappy with the traditional taxi service and are not in support of the government mollycoddling it.