Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix
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2008 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix, that will make history in September, when Singapore hosts the world’s first night race on the Formula 1 calendar. Will Taxis be busy than usual. What kind of contribution will benefit us. Any comment about this.
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with the road closure and all, i think there shd be more inconveniences.
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If the tourist is staying around city hall, the taxi business may be hard hit.
Hope the taxi stand is not far away from the stand.
The only disadvantage I can think of is that the tourists will have to pay more to move around due to the road closure.
This will "improve" the business around city hall, I guess.
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as fifi had said, with the road closures & stuff, driving there might be inconvenience to some so most probably they will ditch their vehicles & take public transport instead..
my guess would be taxis will busy after the race ends & expect a high number of bookings..
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Since they are in Singapore, tourists might want to visit other attractions too. Sentosa, clubs, pubs etc. Taxi business will improve.
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Originally posted by QX179R:
as fifi had said, with the road closures & stuff, driving there might be inconvenience to some so most probably they will ditch their vehicles & take public transport instead..
yes. take mrt!
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more events mean more taxi business... whether it is PC fair, natas fair, youth olympics, F1, Aeroshow.... except those super VIP types like world bank meeting... that one retailers dont like, taxi also dont like... only government like ..... events mean more airport trips, more night safari trips, more hotel trips... jams is unavoidable but unlikely to be very bad lah
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It's night race .... so what u think the night race will affect the night drivers ?
Expected closure of nicholl highway , fullerton , marina centre area ..... some park of High Court and Connaught Drive ...... it will of course affect us night drivers a bit , but again , i expect a slight increase of taxi demand during this period ..... with a bit of enthusiatic people going down to catch a glimpse of action .
I expect a busy airport during this time . During the one week , people from some part of the world would want to see what's like is a night race .
The media , those correspondences around the world , would want to make a comparison with us and Monaco i guess .
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where got jam one in marina area ?
will you purposely go down city area when u know there's various roads closure ???
many drivers in Spore very clever one .
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Morning shift, nothing much increase on collection, but what about night Shift our GURUs can comment on this issue.
So far only one group of Bankers from India coming here only for F1 staying at Peninsular, The other group is a Coporate Group from India staying at Broadway Hotel. That F1 contribution, maybe i am unlucky. This last 2 days.
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Airport arrivals in nite shift is amazing... long queue of pax at all terminals including the unusual T1... many tourist arrivals to see F1... kin, expect on Mon/Tue... thousands of trips going to Airport from hotels in the morning.... Race areas? At dismissal time Fri, massive demand for taxi esp suntec and nicoll... Fri suntec not much jam cos only taxi and label cars can go in....i whacked suntec 4 times... even got a booking once... pax got in $13.8 liao... some more go fort road only... $20 keep the change... and me zoomed back for round 2...haha.... also comfort sent a message 'please try'... i never see comfort say 'please try' before... only 'nearby can try'.... must be comfort kena f by organiser liao... haha got one pax, 'can u go malaysia?'... 'sorry no passport'... then how do i go malaysia?.... sorry dont know.... 'next of the 200 queuing pax please'... malaysia mah... not singapore tourist.... no need to be polite... haha.... Sat suntec much more jam than Fri... funny.... whacked suntec 3 times... Sun? not sure and me not driving... good luck to all sun nite shift drivers... but i think sun should have more cab... cos no surcharge elsewhere.... but me not keen to drive on sunday...
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Payoff for cabbies who braved blocked roads
WITH the $5-surcharge for pick-ups at designated locations near the track and more than 40,000 visitors in town, some cabbies had a bumper weekend.
Comfort taxi driver Chia Aik Meng said his earnings in the last three days had increased, despite the extra hours spent caught in congestion caused by the roadblocks. “The surcharge did help to offset my costs in fuel and jams. I mainly picked up passengers from Raffles City and the Pan Pacific (hotel). There were a lot more tourists in town, so I just went around to these hotels and picked up passengers,” he told Today. CityCab taxi driver Yeo Teng Teck said his earnings rose a little, but not as much as he had hoped, no thanks to the road closures along Beach Road. He had better luck picking up passengers on Orchard Road. But others, likeCityCab taxi driver Mimi Miskiah Solihin, 59, complained that her takings had dropped 20 per cent. “I was stuck in a jam on Nicoll Highway on the first day for one hour. I thought it would be better the next few days, but there were a lot of roadblocks. So I would only go in if there was a booking,” she said. Other taxi drivers, too, prefered to cruise in the suburbs and avoid downtown altogether. SMRT cabbie Leow Lian Chong, however, said the traffic situation was not that bad; he had driven to Suntec City a few times. He said: “This is Singapore’s first Grand Prix, it is worth the little inconvenience.” - TODAYonline
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hope that next F1, there will be better traffic mgmt. i think suntec 'taxi only' system is best for commuters and of course taxi... and i think given the massive taxi demand at dismissal time, taxi surcharge should be $10... and from 1 hour b4 dismissal to 3 hours after dismissal. Why? cos i saw many pax q before dismissal and no taxi... and after dismissal, the crowd cant be cleared within 1.5 hours... without the $5 surcharge, no incentive at all to go back F1 area given the jam... even those tourists at non F1 taxi stand willing to pay the $5 surcharge... what $5? give you $10 and take me first lah...haha... even local hijacked my taxi b4 i reach the taxi stand... helo pick up here also charge u $5 u know?... ok no problem... sick of q with the other 200 pax liao.... just go... haha
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but then collection got increase during F1?... a bit only... why? cos jam the many pax only good to see only... must gain experience and then avoid the jam next time... also depend on destination... if go fort road, huat liao... if go say houg and dont take KPE... wau lan eh...jam all the way from suntec until serangoon but overall very fun lah... those watching F1 fun, we also fun... hear the F1 sound very loud...
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Ya it was fun for me and my frens..shout and scream till throat hoarse..haha! Yes Loud and Fun!
On Sun nite, we managed to hope into a free shuttle bus at Nicol H'way and it took us to Bugis, saving us a bit of walking distance to our cars which were parked at Sungei Road. We did not even know about the free bus until we were ushered up the bus by volunteers.
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next time please take taxi and add to the queue... haha... me from marina to beach road also want to take cab liao... but no cab and many pax even at 9pm...