airbags in taxis MEANS ANOTHE FARE HIKE

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TAXI COMPANIES R PLAYING WITH TAXI DRIVERS LIVES

ITS ALL BECOZ OF COST n WANTING 2 EARN MORE $$$
THEY WONT CARE ABT TAXI DRIVERS LIFE !!

in time 2 come, when they r mandatory 2 fit with airbags ....TAXI RENTAL WILL RISE .... THEY WILL "DRAW THE EXTRA COST" fm taxidrivers

so ....on top of dat .....TAXI FARE WILL B RAISED AGAIN 4 d taxidriver 2 earn n pay d taxi companies
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Calls for airbags in taxis get louder


by Sadat Osman
inSing.com - 3 hrs 10 mins ago


Following a fatal accident involving a taxi and a sports car two weeks ago, calls to install airbags in cabs have been growing louder.
Netizens and newspaper readers have – in cyberspace and letter pages of newspapers – asked why are the 26,000 taxis here not fitted with airbags.
When contacted by The Straits Times newspaper, a spokesman for the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said: “We will have to carefully study and evaluate the requirement for airbags in vehicles.”
He added that there is now a mandatory seatbelt rule for vehicles, including taxis.
Airbags could have been excluded from cabs to save cost. A taxi operator told the newspaper that a company can save a few thousand dollars per taxi if airbags are not installed.
Gerard Ee, Chairman of the Public Transport Council, and Ang Hin Kee, adviser to the National Taxi Association and MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC, have indicated their support for taxis to be fitted with airbags.
Mr Ee was appalled that new taxis were unequipped with the airbags.
“It is logical to add airbags. The longer drivers spend on the road, the higher their risk of getting into an accident,” he told The Straits Times.
Mr Ang suggested that taxi companies fit older vehicles with airbags before they are phased out in two years.
“It is part of making the taxi drivers’ work tool and environment safer,” he said.
When contacted, SMRT said that it has about 1,500 cabs without airbags because they are older models. It added that, in the next two years, it will replace these with newer vehicles which have airbags.
SMART Cab, which has 700 taxis on the roads, said it will replace about 400 older taxis with new ones that come with airbags.
ComfortDelgro, the largest taxi operator here with 15,000 cabs, did not respond to queries from the paper

 

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Taxi company try to turn here and there not =answer to the question why no airbag in Sonata . The taxi involve in accident with ferrari is Hyundai Sonata is a new taxi not toyota crown. Should ask them why new taxi no airbag.

 

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When contacted by The Straits Times newspaper, a spokesman for the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said: “We will have to carefully study and evaluate the requirement for airbags in vehicles.”

What kind of BS is this? Carefully study? Either airbags are BS or LTA is BS.