Third-party taxi booking companies to be regulated
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Third-party taxi booking companies to be regulated by the LTA
SINGAPORE - Third-party taxi booking services like GrabTaxi and Uber will soon be regulated by the Land Transport Authority (LTA).
In a statement on Friday morning, the LTA announced that it will introduce a regulatory framework for these services to safeguard commuter safety and interests.
Under the framework, third-party booking services will have to comply with five conditions.
These are:
1. Registering with the LTA. Successful applicants will be granted a certificate, which is valid for three years.
2. Dispatching only licensed taxis and drivers who have valid taxi vocational licenses. This is to ensure that commuters are served by taxis and taxi drivers who are operating legally in Singapore.
3. Making clear all fare rates, surcharges, and fees payable with commuters upfront. These include the flag-down fare, distance and time rates and booking fees, as well as peak period and location surcharges.
Alternatively, third-party booking service operators can provide commuters with the option to set their user preferences to automatically reject certain types of taxis, or taxis with certain fare rates and surcharges.
Bidding and pre-trip tipping will not be allowed, to ensure that taxi services remain equally accessible to all.
Booking fees also cannot exceed those charged by taxi companies.
4. Not making it a requirement for consumers to specify their destinations before they can make bookings.
"While the taxi industry has shared that knowing prospective passengers' destinations can encourage drivers to accept bookings, there are concerns that some taxi drivers may choose their passengers and avoid taking bookings to certain destinations," the LTA statement said.
5. Providing basic customer support services, including lost-and-found services and avenues for feedback or complaints.
The LTA said that it consulted commuters, the National Taxi Association, third-party taxi booking services, and taxi companies over the past year before coming up with the framework.
The framework is expected to take effect in the second quarter of next year
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Uber pirate taxi bo kangtao liao...LOL
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。。。。。。。。。4. Not making it a requirement for consumers to specify their destinations before they can make bookings.。。。。。。。。。
All our scholar like to LP <<==>> PL
The reason why these 3rd Party Taxi Booking Apps are doing so well.
It's becuase they indicated the Pax destination, Now they want to belakang pusing.
Try to imagine one day GT, ET, Uber 。。。。。All Apps without Pax destination,
You think TD will just take those call
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Just wait and see.
Our scholar Genius creation will end with
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Originally posted by Ct2220:
。。。。。。。。。4. Not making it a requirement for consumers to specify their destinations before they can make bookings.。。。。。。。。。
All our scholar like to LP <<==>> PL
The reason why these 3rd Party Taxi Booking Apps are doing so well.
It's becuase they indicated the Pax destination, Now they want to belakang pusing.
Try to imagine one day GT, ET, Uber 。。。。。All Apps without Pax destination,
You think TD will just take those call
Lol...
I think Cdg call vol must be drop very jiaklut...
That's why need LTA to help....
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KNNBCCB LTA you dare to defy your master issit!!!!
TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG AT NUSS 60TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE ON 3 OCT 2014 AT THE UNIVERSITY CULTURAL CENTRE
14. Take another example - car-sharing apps like Uber or Grabtaxi. They are changing the nature of the business. What is the business? Not taxis but cars bringing people from place to place, providing a service to people where they want it, when they want it, the way they want it. It has given commuters increased options and improved services but it has disrupted traditional industries, and in particular the taxi business in many cities. It is challenging the regulatory frameworks which govern the taxi operations in cities around the world. So you find that incumbents are very anxious, worried, pushing back, resisting, protesting, filing suits whether it is in London, Paris, Germany or Sydney. The change is happening and not everybody likes it. The technology is already in Singa¬pore too. Not just Uber but Uber X, GrabTaxi and there are others as well. It is futile to resist it or try to prevent it. I think it is a wrong attitude because it can bring better services and better lives to our people. So we have got to track this and understand how it can help us. And we have got to have a response to be able to develop the framework to facilitate innovation and at the same time orderly change in the taxi industry, and ensure a competitive and a level playing field for both old and new players.
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Master says wrong attitude liao....Still chut SMLJ pattern!!!! Not scare tio strike by lightning ah!!!!
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Originally posted by Ct2220:
。。。。。。。。。4. Not making it a requirement for consumers to specify their destinations before they can make bookings.。。。。。。。。。
All our scholar like to LP <<==>> PL
The reason why these 3rd Party Taxi Booking Apps are doing so well.
It's becuase they indicated the Pax destination, Now they want to belakang pusing.
Try to imagine one day GT, ET, Uber 。。。。。All Apps without Pax destination,
You think TD will just take those call
Bo lah, this regulation is like no say better, just for show, grab and easy can alway tell pax in their booking system, "Dear customer, hv the right to provide or not to provide destination, however, by providing destination, you can get your taxi faster." This rule need not say you cannot provide destination hor.. -
Originally posted by Redxx:
Lol...
I think Cdg call vol must be drop very jiaklut...
That's why need LTA to help....
Yalor, jialut liao, if these regulation go into play...ting ting no stop start again,...hiaz. But from a neutral TD perspective, point nos 2. Dispatching only licensed taxis and drivers who have valid taxi vocational licenses. This is to ensure that commuters are served by taxis and taxi drivers who are operating legally in Singapore. Benefitted TD alot -
Originally posted by hammerhammer8888:
KNNBCCB LTA you dare to defy your master issit!!!!
TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG AT NUSS 60TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE ON 3 OCT 2014 AT THE UNIVERSITY CULTURAL CENTRE
14. Take another example - car-sharing apps like Uber or Grabtaxi. They are changing the nature of the business. What is the business? Not taxis but cars bringing people from place to place, providing a service to people where they want it, when they want it, the way they want it. It has given commuters increased options and improved services but it has disrupted traditional industries, and in particular the taxi business in many cities. It is challenging the regulatory frameworks which govern the taxi operations in cities around the world. So you find that incumbents are very anxious, worried, pushing back, resisting, protesting, filing suits whether it is in London, Paris, Germany or Sydney. The change is happening and not everybody likes it. The technology is already in Singa¬pore too. Not just Uber but Uber X, GrabTaxi and there are others as well. It is futile to resist it or try to prevent it. I think it is a wrong attitude because it can bring better services and better lives to our people. So we have got to track this and understand how it can help us. And we have got to have a response to be able to develop the framework to facilitate innovation and at the same time orderly change in the taxi industry, and ensure a competitive and a level playing field for both old and new players.
原谅他�!
LHL say that time no yet take medicine ley!
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Originally posted by hammerhammer8888:
KNNBCCB LTA you dare to defy your master issit!!!!
TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG AT NUSS 60TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE ON 3 OCT 2014 AT THE UNIVERSITY CULTURAL CENTRE
14. Take another example - car-sharing apps like Uber or Grabtaxi. They are changing the nature of the business. What is the business? Not taxis but cars bringing people from place to place, providing a service to people where they want it, when they want it, the way they want it. It has given commuters increased options and improved services but it has disrupted traditional industries, and in particular the taxi business in many cities. It is challenging the regulatory frameworks which govern the taxi operations in cities around the world. So you find that incumbents are very anxious, worried, pushing back, resisting, protesting, filing suits whether it is in London, Paris, Germany or Sydney. The change is happening and not everybody likes it. The technology is already in Singa¬pore too. Not just Uber but Uber X, GrabTaxi and there are others as well. It is futile to resist it or try to prevent it. I think it is a wrong attitude because it can bring better services and better lives to our people. So we have got to track this and understand how it can help us. And we have got to have a response to be able to develop the framework to facilitate innovation and at the same time orderly change in the taxi industry, and ensure a competitive and a level playing field for both old and new players.
Wha! you still believe what he said...mai lah, Last time he said foreigners are here to help us get good job, I really believe in him, but knnccb....end up a taxi driver, casket driver, car upload and download driver...mai lah, enuf is enuf -
arya talk is cheap.
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5. Providing basic customer support services, including lost-and-found services and avenues for feedback or complaints.
Means what? Next time if grab pax leave something behind, TD must return at GrabTaxi HQ and not at Taxi Company?
Then if grab pax got complaint against TD, the Taxi Company bo chap? Grab must handle the complaint? What can Grab do? Cannot take back taxi wat..the most pok the TD. Then he join Easy, Uber, Hailo and many more others lor....
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the grab calls really competitive.... use 1 week liao only manage to grab 2 calls, my fing too slow...........
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Originally posted by Sotongking73:
the grab calls really competitive.... use 1 week liao only manage to grab 2 calls, my fing too slow...........
hi bro, grab doesn't work with the concept with fastest finger first,
the nearer bidder gets it
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Originally posted by Reliefdriver4u:
hi bro, grab doesn't work with the concept with fastest finger first,
the nearer bidder gets it
Actually to GRAB a call beside Distance, Finger reaction.
There are oso numbers of very techincal factors.
1) Your Smartphone Network : 4G or 3G
�My Phone is 4G】2) Your Smartphone CPU : Dual-core or Quad-core or Octa-core
�My Phone is Octa-core】3) Your GT member CLP score
�My CLP is Green Full and start tuen into Yellow】4）Your GT Apps type: GrabTaxi Driver (MyTeksi) V3 or GrabTaxi Driver (MTS) V3
or GrabTaxi Driver (MTS) V4
�My App is GrabTaxi Driver (MTS) V4】Just refer to above my GT call history
Sunday morning 03.40am, Clark Quay got how many taxi, why I can GRAB the call.Saturday night 11.07pm Suntec Tower got how many taxi, why I can GRAB the call.
Friday night 07.15pm Telok Ayer Taxi Stand （E07） got how many taxi, why I can GRAB the call.
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Ani kuan kong, my Nokia3210 tak boleh jalan liao
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Typically everything also want to regulate... Haiz
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Arbo later riot, strike..how?
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