Why Pre-requiste for Taxi Driver is Singapore citizen
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Was discussing with friends that if Singaporean is out of job, last hope is to be a taxi driver cause the pre-requiste for taxi driver is being a Singapore citizen. (http://www.taxi.org.sg/tvl.htm)
But my friend argue that that's being racist! Why can't FT or PR become taxi driver too?
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if a local taxi driver can serve me just as good or better, i see no reason why allow FT and PR... cabby is a job and if local can do it well or better, why need to open up to foreigners when there is no lack of local taxi drivers? think about this... wd you allow your gf or sister or daughter to be driven home half drunk at night in a taxi driven by foreign worker? how long it needs for a foreigner to know where and what is ang-sa-lee and best way to get there?
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Originally posted by ALN:
if a local taxi driver can serve me just as good or better, i see no reason why allow FT and PR… cabby is a job and if local can do it well or better, why need to open up to foreigners when there is no lack of local taxi drivers?
think about this… wd you allow your gf or sister or daughter to be driven home half drunk at night in a taxi driven by foreign worker?
how long it needs for a foreigner to know where and what is ang-sa-lee and best way to get there?
True. But the same thing is there's many other jobs which local can do well yet is taken up by FT.
I was accused as being racist by my friend when I bring up the arguement that it is dangerous to let foreigners be taxi driver as they can rob the passenger and run away...
Anyway, maybe not FT, what about PR then?
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The basic fundamental requirement of a taxi driver - ROUTES !!
Who's better ? A 30-yr-old born-and breed pure S'porean or a stay only in S'pore for last 5 years foreign talent ?
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please lor, i don't want to say onan road and they send me to outram
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Singaporean is out of job, last hope is to be a taxi driver. no there is still other Gurung Guni, Property agent... many others. My gahman will creat more jobs, dun worry at all as Singaporean.... let your friend know about this..ya.
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Originally posted by Poolman:
The basic fundamental requirement of a taxi driver - ROUTES !!
Who's better ? A 30-yr-old born-and breed pure S'porean or a stay only in S'pore for last 5 years foreign talent ?
True.
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Originally posted by Poolman:
The basic fundamental requirement of a taxi driver - ROUTES !!
Who's better ? A 30-yr-old born-and breed pure S'porean or a stay only in S'pore for last 5 years foreign talent ?
That's just nonsense. Put a GPS system in every taxi and given the right training, any foreign worker can do your job. This government has been trying to give losers who cannot find a job otherwise a chance to eat by restricting taxi licenses to undeserving citizens who only know how to rant against them.
Time to open the market to foreign competition.
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
That's just nonsense. Put a GPS system in every taxi and given the right training, any foreign worker can do your job. This government has been trying to give losers who cannot find a job otherwise a chance to eat by restricting taxi licenses to undeserving citizens who only know how to rant against them.
Time to open the market to foreign competition.
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oxford mushroom the pro FT is back in town...
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tell u, our gahmen may do many funny things that people curse at them... but know this, the day unemployment rate go sky high is the day they go out of power... meaning they treat local jobs very seriously... not anyhow open up to so-called FT... unless got good reason... oxford, btw which line u in?
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the qn is not y bt y not.
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y not? like that the question will have no end u know.... y not open to those under 30? y not just ban local cabbies? y not just not have taxi at all? how to answer these kind of questions?
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
That's just nonsense. Put a GPS system in every taxi and given the right training, any foreign worker can do your job. This government has been trying to give losers who cannot find a job otherwise a chance to eat by restricting taxi licenses to undeserving citizens who only know how to rant against them.
Time to open the market to foreign competition.
GPS... won't tell you that Springleaf Tower in Anson Road must come by Prince Edward cos the drop-off point is at Prince Edward side, not Anson Road. And in the CBD area can't just drop the pax along Anson Road. There are many many more such situations. FT with a GPS...hmmmz. So oxford, imagine it is your first time to Springleaf Tower for an interview (some high flyer job paying $200+K a year), FT with GPS takes you to Anson Road....alamak cannot stop here sir, I turn back and let u drop at International Plaza taxi stand or CPF Building taxi stand ok? not ok ah..so how? yeah, you will get there, sometime, eventually, but late for your important interview, so how?
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Originally posted by KCTK:
GPS... won't tell you that Springleaf Tower in Anson Road must come by Prince Edward cos the drop-off point is at Prince Edward side, not Anson Road. And in the CBD area can't just drop the pax along Anson Road. There are many many more such situations. FT with a GPS...hmmmz. So oxford, imagine it is your first time to Springleaf Tower for an interview (some high flyer job paying $200+K a year), FT with GPS takes you to Anson Road....alamak cannot stop here sir, I turn back and let u drop at International Plaza taxi stand or CPF Building taxi stand ok? not ok ah..so how? yeah, you will get there, sometime, eventually, but late for your important interview, so how?
A good GPS is far better than the majority of taxi drivers I have met who don't even know Singapore roads, much less buildings. The fact is: you have not proven that a local will know Singapore roads better than a foreigner with the right training. Put all cab drivers through a rigorous exam (London can drivers spend a year in training to sit the 'Knowledge of London' exam). London cab drivers are required to know the shortest route between any two points in London. Do the same for taxi drivers in Singapore.
Whoever can get through the exam, regardless of citizens or foreigners, will deserve the license.
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GPS systems are not heuristic in nature.
The role of human memory over the best routes to take at different times of the day, beats the data churned out of the GPS that does not take into account multiple factors that affect road conditions.
Secondly, foreigners may not have lived here long enough to know non-official but vernacular names of places/buildings/streets in Singapore.
We've got enough service quality issues with foreign bus drivers as it is. This is Singapore, not some kucing kurap place where cost is the only sole factor.
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
Put all cab drivers through a rigorous exam (London can drivers spend a year in training to sit the 'Knowledge of London' exam). London cab drivers are required to know the shortest route between any two points in London. Do the same for taxi drivers in Singapore.
Whoever can get through the exam, regardless of citizens or foreigners, will deserve the license.
This is a better alternative than reliance on GPS, provided the driver education for foreign applicants include a standard English course for effective communication.
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Originally posted by ALN:
if a local taxi driver can serve me just as good or better, i see no reason why allow FT and PR… cabby is a job and if local can do it well or better, why need to open up to foreigners when there is no lack of local taxi drivers?
think about this… wd you allow your gf or sister or daughter to be driven home half drunk at night in a taxi driven by foreign worker?
how long it needs for a foreigner to know where and what is ang-sa-lee and best way to get there?
Frankly speaking, it isn't exactly safe for the ladies even when the driver is a Singaporean, but somehow the idea of my gf/sister/daughter boarding a cab driven by a FT just doesn't seem comfortable. -
More retrenchment coming, we may see more 'qualified' and better 'educated' taxi drivers on our roads.
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Whatever the reason stated , whether or not any FT believe in or not , the fact remains .... no point arguing .
The fact remains , that taxi is purely for Singaporeans , whether or not that any particular foreigner are more familiar with Singapore than any other locals .
If FT can be allowed to drive a taxi , then ..... Seng Han Tong needs 24 hours bodyguard .
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I challenge any Singaporeans nowadays , where is " Ang Sa Lee " ?
If Singaporeans cannot even answer my simple question , if majority of our locals don't know where it locates , do i expect an Indian National to answer that ?
This Ang Sa Lee , GPS cannot find u know ? There is a place called Ang Sa Lee , amd there is people who asked me to bring them there , using Ang Sa Lee .
I can even throw a simple road name to any Indian Nationals , where is Cuff Road ? I doubt they know , but they do walk past every Single Sunday when they are at Little India .
Think about that .... and this is just routes . Taxi driving is more than routes .
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This FT thing has a bit of truth to it.
Coffee shops have FTs and I can experience the service standards has changed for the better. Mustafa has FTs and I can safely say they has better courtesy than their locally bred staffs (most, there are exceptions but few).
Personal opinion; the FTs will over time behave like locals, because many Singaporeans still do not have the social grace to react to courtesy or 'grace' bestowed upon them. Example, the cashier says (with sincerity that I can feel it) 'thank you for shopping with Mustafa....etc'. What would be your SPONTANEOUS answer to that.
I had stood aside and observed, many locals do not EVEN hear what the cashier was saying and when those who did, do not understand what this appreciation of custom the FT cashier was trying to convey to them. They just stared and left.
People like to be recognised or at least appreciated for what they do, many locals do not reciprocrate appropriately to sitiuations and requests. We demand that our needs be catered to and do not know how to reward accordingly, be it a kind word or materially.
In time, without these 'sustenance" even the most enduring service providing diehards will give and become a Singaporean. (I'm puttting a capital 'S' in singaporean out of courtesy).
C'mon! let's all grow up and be less self-centered and be one with ..........humanity?