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    Commuter-Rejecting Taxis Rampant on 4 Bangkok Streets


    The Department of Land Transport has learned from its mobile phone application that taxi drivers
    often turn down commuters on four Bangkok streets. (Photo by Somchai Poomlard)


    Bangkok Post
    May 25, 2015
    Writer: Amornrat Mahitthirook

    A mobile phone application from the Department of Land Transport has revealed that Bangkok's Sukhumvit, Silom, Sathon and Phaya Thai are the streets where taxi drivers routinely reject commuters in need.

    Chirute Visalachitra, deputy director-general of the department, said on Monday that taxi passengers who used its DLT Check-in application reported that rejection problems happened frequently on the four main streets from 5pm to 10pm. Therefore, more department officers will be deployed there to watch for drivers turning down customers.

    Complaints about taxi drivers refusing to pick up passengers constituted the largest number of gripes filed via the app, he said.

    Nearly 30,000 people have downloaded the DLT Check-in application and 1,832 complaints and 818 compliments have been filed through it. Users have rated taxi services 11,185 times since the software was released in February.

    "The department has fined the taxi drivers and the owners of taxis facing complaints," Mr Chirute said. "Eleven taxi drivers have had their licences suspended for repeated offenses."

    Submissions through the application also told the department that most passengers were more satisfied with the green-yellow taxis operated by individual drivers than those of other colours, which are operated by cooperatives and transport companies. Also, taxis used for more than six years displeased commuters due to their poor conditions and dirtiness, he said.

    The department plans to add features to the application to cover passenger vans in the future, Mr Chirute added.

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    Could be worse. What if they were commuter ejecting taxis?

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    It's fun to open the back door and just get in, then pretend you don't understand if the monkey says he won't take you. Even more fun to leave the back door open if he refuses.

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    I don,t understand why these pricks drive a taxi if they dont actually want to pick up passengers it would be like a porn actress refusing to suck cock !

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    I thought it common practice for taxi driver to refuse, depends on destination,
    We always say where we want to go before getting into the cab.

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    Quote Originally Posted by steve down under
    I don,t understand why these pricks drive a taxi if they dont actually want to pick up passengers it would be like a porn actress refusing to suck cock !
    Well, put yourself in this porn actress' position of having to suck a Thai dick for an hour for 100 baht, when you could have sucked 3 or 4 cocks in that time or been offered 200 baht by Looper or Blue for an hours gobble.

    Now which cock would you rather suck?

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    thats probably the most contrived analogy ever.

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    To all intents and purposes there is no taxi system functioning within the central and tourist districts of inner Bangkok between 1600 hrs and 2300 hrs. It is a lottery now and getting a cab at the first time of asking to take you where you want to go using the meter is akin to hitting the jackpot.

    It just makes life that much more unbearable and in 37c, quite intolerable.

    The Skytrain at 1800 hrs is redolent of cattle trucks. The only real alternative is the MRT and that goes nowhere very much except from Phraram 9 to Sala Daeng taking in Asoke.

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    has the nakon chai air taxi service started yet ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    thats probably the most contrived analogy ever.
    I think it's more research results.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobR View Post
    It's fun to open the back door and just get in
    That should be the way you enter a taxi every time, people who lean in first and ask about the destination are just setting themselves up for a rejection. Just get in and tell him where you want to go. If he says no, either start explaining where you want to go, giving directions, etc., or do as BobR suggested and play dumb - basically don't entertain the idea of simply being refused.

    And any taxis who come past and start to roll the window down are best just waved along.

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    It's actually an improvement over the pre-meter days when you had to pay 300 baht to take a taxi from Suriwong to Nana after midnight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert View Post
    It's actually an improvement over the pre-meter days when you had to pay 300 baht to take a taxi from Suriwong to Nana after midnight.
    Doing it wrong back then Bert.

    You, with the Farang face, should have been sidled up to a telephone pole/booth etc and let the pooying Thai do the negotiations with the cab driver.

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