Fewer people taking cabs

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Fewer people are taking cabs these days as more hop on buses and trains, or cut back on travel expenses. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->FEWER people are taking cabs these days as more hop on buses and trains, or cut back on travel expenses.
On average, there were 893,674 taxi trips made a day in the first three months of the year, the lowest in five years, after recovering steadily from a post-Sars low.
This is about 8,805 fewer rides a day than the same quarter last year, and down another 74,673 rides from 2007. Read the full report in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.

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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>6/8,10/9, forums.delphiforums.com/anymos (ANYMOS) <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>10:26 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>metalslug84 <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right>(2 of 2) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"></TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>14603.2 in reply to 14603.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]And considering that the floodgates to Foreign Trash have been opened wide last 2 years.... you can imagine the taxi rides on a per-population-unit basis would post even worse % drops.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]What does this tell you ? The trash are all squeezing into buses and MRTs. Every penny saved is being repatriated home.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]GET ready for massive 'public' transport fare increases after the erections. [/FONT]

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Awaiting queuing booking etc are time consuming and painful. Going through the traffic is painful and costly. The road forcing you to go around the LOONG LOONG ways also another thing. Then PAY & PAY ERP everywhere.

In the end cabs don't get us around any more faster nor comfortable by much.

So what's the point of spending?
 
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