The day before yesterday,Malaysian government announced that the bus and taxi fares are up for around 30%.Frankly speaking,the public transportation system is very inefficient-you have to wait for 30-60mins for a bus,sometimes you could never get it in several hours;the taxi driver will refuse to fetch passengers,or make a quotation with a high price without following meter tariff etc.

The new taxi fare is as follows:

The new flag-off fare for taxis will be RM3, up from RM2, while passengers will be charged 10 sen for every 115m, instead of 150m currently.

The government said it should help the taxi drivers and let them perform a better quality of service.However,I don’t think so.I had a bad experience right on the day.

In the past Thursday evening,I planned to take a bus to go out.But after waiting for an hour,I decided to take a taxi instead.I stopped 4 taxis and all of them told me the news that the government announced and so they wanted to charge extra RM3 after the metered charge.They kept saying that the new tariff would be effective from the current date.

I don’t think they misread the content because they knew the new policy clearly.They just wanted to cheat consumers to earn more money.They are completely lacking of professional ethic as a taxi driver.

The government thought is so babyish.The increased fare will definitely not improve taxi services.The taxi drivers now could start to eat abalone and the consumers have to eat humble pie.SUCH A GREAT DEAL!