Curepe Taxi fares To Increase From 28/2/2020

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Imagine a country like Trinidad still doesn't have a modern rail system, not complaining just find it pretty funny how corrupt the system is and people accept it just fine and dandy.

At this point a mass transit system cannot be possible because it will put too many taxi drivers out of business and on the breadline. Rapid Rail is something that should have been started years ago, the PNM driver in work told me if they didn't kill Manning we would have had a Rapid Rail by now

[adnj]

Imagine a country like Trinidad still doesn't have a modern rail system, not complaining just find it pretty funny how corrupt the system is and people accept it just fine and dandy.

At this point a mass transit system cannot be possible because it will put too many taxi drivers out of business and on the breadline. Rapid Rail is something that should have been started years ago, the PNM driver in work told me if they didn't kill Manning we would have had a Rapid Rail by now

You will likely see driverless vehicles long before a rail system. Both will reduce or eliminate taxi and truck driver jobs.

Other than the users, the only people that will be happy are the fleet owners that own those vehicles

[RedVEVO]

^^
Rail System will NEVER put taxi drivers etc., at a loss or out of a job ..

Whosoever thinking this lives in a cave with scabies

[DTAC]

So you waiting extra for the taxi to fill almost double the seats and you pay extra for the privilege? Nah.

They tried raising the fare from Chaguanas to Felicity once. it didn't take.

[adnj]

^^
Rail System will NEVER put taxi drivers etc., at a loss or out of a job ..

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[DTAC]

The is no AI in the world even remotely capable of driving on 99% of Trinidad roads. Highways just about but off highway not a chance.

[juggernaught]

So my question is things only hard for them taxi drivers alone? What horse feces I hearing look how long the working public salaries have never been adjusted to the high cost of living and then these sons of beaches wanna increase the fare because they losing out? Man that’s just greed for real, I nor the traveling public never gone and tell you to buy a frigging Serena or noah

That's a pretty narrow-minded opinion, what does public sector salaries have to do with an entrepreneur that invested money to provide a service? A businessman does not go into business for the purpose of charity he goes in to make money. In a country with no reliable mass-transit system, larger capacity vehicles are the better bet, it's the norm internationally

It’s not narrow minded if you think about it you know, a lot of the traveling public are people of this nature, do you think they would be happy to know they constantly fall at whims of money hungry taxi drivers who simply wanna make a mil off transporting people in a car hmmm I think not..fuel prices are somewhat justifiable over a certain period but not what they tryna do here, think about it this way an entrepreneur of any type knows his customers are the reason he actually gets a opportunity to provide a service and gets income from that, so the LAST one to take a hit would be them the customers but it seems to me that taxi drivers don’t wanna bear the brunt of ANY overheads. “Keep customers coming back not take advantage of them, because you would make a dollar today but not tomorrow”

[eliteauto]

So my question is things only hard for them taxi drivers alone? What horse feces I hearing look how long the working public salaries have never been adjusted to the high cost of living and then these sons of beaches wanna increase the fare because they losing out? Man that’s just greed for real, I nor the traveling public never gone and tell you to buy a frigging Serena or noah

That's a pretty narrow-minded opinion, what does public sector salaries have to do with an entrepreneur that invested money to provide a service? A businessman does not go into business for the purpose of charity he goes in to make money. In a country with no reliable mass-transit system, larger capacity vehicles are the better bet, it's the norm internationally

It’s not narrow minded if you think about it you know, a lot of the traveling public are people of this nature, do you think they would be happy to know they constantly fall at whims of money hungry taxi drivers who simply wanna make a mil off transporting people in a car hmmm I think not..fuel prices are somewhat justifiable over a certain period but not what they tryna do here, think about it this way an entrepreneur of any type knows his customers are the reason he actually gets a opportunity to provide a service and gets income from that, so the LAST one to take a hit would be them the customers but it seems to me that taxi drivers don’t wanna bear the brunt of ANY overheads. “Keep customers coming back not take advantage of them, because you would make a dollar today but not tomorrow”

I understand your POV, and I agree that some increased overhead costs should be absorbed especially given the current economic climate, in my own sector of the industry I've advocated for increased efficiency vs fare increases and written policy documents for same. But route taxis may not have the buffer that I do and may be in a more tenuous position with their finances, losing the equivalent of your installment may be too much to absorb. In the end though you might be right with this particular route and it's fare increases

[daxt0r]

hey while on d subject of taxi, ah never travel to or from gasparillo to d airport, anybody know d different taxis ah go hv to take? plz doh tell me call a taxi, dem thing is for big boy ah mean like with taxi/maxi on stand.

[zoom rader]

hey while on d subject of taxi, ah never travel to or from gasparillo to d airport, anybody know d different taxis ah go hv to take? plz doh tell me call a taxi, dem thing is for big boy ah mean like with taxi/maxi on stand.

1.Take taxi from Gas to San do
2. Take San Do (high st) to Crerep junction.
3. Take from ( Kfc) Crerep take maxi to (Kfc) Arouca junction
4. From Kfc Arouca junction take taxi to airport . Tell driver you going airport or you will end up picarco junction

Should take 1.5hr to 2hr.

[maj. tom]

Alt. instead of going Sando, you can take a PH from gasparillo to marabella, take the southern main road green band to chaguanas, and then another green band from chaguanas to curepe or washington-kelly round-about. This will take even longer.
But i tell u in the next thread OP, if you have luggage you need to call a taxi.

[daxt0r]

thx ZR an majtom for the directions, na is for wok, no luggage an ting, might hav a napsack but thats that.
thanks for using the KFC as landmarks, ah from rel deep south so the landmarks more helpful cuz i really wouldn't know when i even reach arouca as i never travel up on da side or even had a reason to go there but now given the landmarks ah cud jus preload them in Maps so i go know when to jump out.

[rspann]

Writing without capitals and punctuation marks and asking for directions.

Coincidence ?

[adnj]

Writing without capitals and punctuation marks and asking for directions.

Coincidence ?

KFC was capitalized. Very important.

[rspann]

That , zr and maps.. . Could be autocorrect? Or the things he considers important ?

That was natio MO.

[zoom rader]

That , zr and maps.. . Could be autocorrect? Or the things he considers important ?

That was natio MO.

Southmen most often know how to travel.

It's the folk from Tetron to light house seem to have a problem traveling past the light house.

[RedVEVO]

^^

The Rapid Rail is the solution .

New York and London where I lived and worked , you did not need a car ..

There were efficient rail transport to anywhere .. and everywhere .. in mins

From Surrey to WaterLoo took 20 mins ..

Via car it would of been virtually impossible .

[zoom rader]

^^

The Rapid Rail is the solution .

New York and London where I lived and worked , you did not need a car ..

There were efficient rail transport to anywhere ..

From Surrey to WaterLoo took 20 mins ..

Via car it would of been virtually impossible .

You know PNM to ever build anything on time and budget?

Rail is needed but not PNM.

All yuh want to put elite out of a wuk, black man cah have nutten or wat

[RedVEVO]

^^

TT Black men want ..

But cannot implement ..

How many other ethics groups have achieved financial freedom ?

The list is .. " hmmmm I did not know dat ... "

[sMASH]

lol so they reducing passengers and raising the fare to compensate, but yet no word of passenger safety like seat-belts for all passengers. Inertia does stop by magic after the front seat ent? What about child seats for baby passengers? As registered taxi drivers, should they all not have a child seat in the trunk to attach to a regular seat for when there is need to buckle up a child? Nothing wrong with paying a passenger fare for that safety service. Trinidad forever have backward sheit laws that never protect its citizens eh?

And they eh talk about how taxi drivers always speeding and zig zagging like Mad Max hog warriors? They culling the traditional jackass taxi driving with this fare raise? If Arrive Alive ever needs proof for their campaign, just follow a POS/Curepe to Sando taxi at any hour with a dashcam.

AYE
boi, several years ago I had the misfortune to have to take a taxi to arima, and little did I know the driver was pushing hard for the CvNT of the Decade Award in the jackass driving category. He start driving like a ass from by maritime flyover, tailgating, speeding, shoulder driving, zig-zag all over the place. I asked him one time to slow down & follow the laws of the road. He responded in the manner I expected a jackass would, "if yuh eh like how I driving yuh could come out here yunno".
Me eh say a word after, I just pull out phone & start to record the rest of the trip.
Reach arima, I walk out the car, & I tell him I eh paying him. He start to cuss & come out d car,& I tell him, let us go in d station & see if the police decide I should pay him for endangering my life & If they do decide I should pay him after watching the video of his driving on my phone, I would & tip him $100.
That was the fastest I ever see an a$$h0le jump back in a taxi & drive off cussin .

Most trini like the fact they get there fast, u are a rare breed to value ur life

[88sins]

Never was one to care about how fast I reach anywhere, but I am a stickler for being on time, & have a thing for punctuality. As a result I always plan ahead, so if I know a trip takes 45 minutes, I leave an hour-hour & a half before if i have to travel, if driving, an hour is enough. So worst case scenario I on time or just barely a little late, best case scenario, I 15 minutes early & have time to chill out a lil bit.

I never could understand some ppl mentality nah, wanna leave home 7:30 to reach where yuh going for 8 & know is a 2 hour trip due to distance & traffic congestion, then when yuh late, dey cussin ppl on d road & venting road rage in frustration & mistakenly expect ppl they going to meet to wait on dem.

[adnj]

^^

The Rapid Rail is the solution .

New York and London where I lived and worked , you did not need a car ..

There were efficient rail transport to anywhere .. and everywhere .. in mins

From Surrey to WaterLoo took 20 mins ..

Via car it would of been virtually impossible .

You spent time in the two cities with the best rail systems in the Western hemisphere. And each are one hundred times larger than San Fernando.

Europe has a great rail system. That is simply not the case for most of the cities in the US. In South and Central America, there are city buses that come once per day - maybe that's closer to the metric that you should be using to compare.

[linton]

A quick check says Surrey - Waterloo average is 40 mins.

[redmanjp]

but how much that rail system cost?

[zoom rader]

but how much that rail system cost?

Can't put a cost of what the UK rail system cost, cause it's been there for over 150 years. They just keep upgrading it as the years goes by.

If PNM had kept our rail and did the same as the UK by upgrading then we would have had better transportation.

The only reason why PNM killed our existing rail was because of car dealers and taxi drivers

[adnj]

but how much that rail system cost?

Can't put a cost of what the UK rail system cost, cause it's been there for over 150 years. They just keep upgrading it as the years goes by.

If PNM had kept our rail and did the same as the UK by upgrading then we would have had better transportation.

The only reason why PNM killed our existing rail was because of car dealers and taxi drivers

I will say it more simply for you...

There isn't enough of a population on this island to support a rail system of any significance.

[zoom rader]

but how much that rail system cost?

Can't put a cost of what the UK rail system cost, cause it's been there for over 150 years. They just keep upgrading it as the years goes by.

If PNM had kept our rail and did the same as the UK by upgrading then we would have had better transportation.

The only reason why PNM killed our existing rail was because of car dealers and taxi drivers

I will say it more simply for you...

There isn't enough of a population on this island to support a rail system of any significance.

What studies show this?

[Blaze d Chalice]

Hard luck for alyuh fellas who have to take dat 4pm traffic in a full taxi of goons who mix concrete whole day, and rain falling so glass have to wind up - because now you have to pay 2 dollars, more for the same treatment especially with that Curepe interchange traffic.

Dem drivers might start to charge extra for AC on dem days.
Giving alyuh all kinda excuse about how the gas needle not working and he gas really low doh mind it on F.

[adnj]

but how much that rail system cost?

Can't put a cost of what the UK rail system cost, cause it's been there for over 150 years. They just keep upgrading it as the years goes by.

If PNM had kept our rail and did the same as the UK by upgrading then we would have had better transportation.

The only reason why PNM killed our existing rail was because of car dealers and taxi drivers

I will say it more simply for you...

There isn't enough of a population on this island to support a rail system of any significance.

What studies show this?

Lots of info out there correlating population size and density versus light rail cost and success.

Suffice to say that everything that you said is wrong regarding rail and guided vehicles for mass transit.

You will conclude with adequate research that:

.. Age of the investment does not affect overall costs much.
.. Population density is a crucial measure of success.
.. Subsidies are required for nearly every system.
.. About 28,000 ppl/sq mi (45 ppl/acre) is the about minimum population density for success.

Once 28,000 ppl/sq mi has been reached, light rail makes sense because of the productivity gains for the work force. It appears that by comparison San Fernando has a density of only 6700 ppl/sq mi. Trinidad has a population density that is one-tenth of that.

[zoom rader]

but how much that rail system cost?

Can't put a cost of what the UK rail system cost, cause it's been there for over 150 years. They just keep upgrading it as the years goes by.

If PNM had kept our rail and did the same as the UK by upgrading then we would have had better transportation.

The only reason why PNM killed our existing rail was because of car dealers and taxi drivers

I will say it more simply for you...

There isn't enough of a population on this island to support a rail system of any significance.

What studies show this?

Lots of info out there correlating population size and density versus light rail cost and success.

Suffice to say that everything that you said is wrong regarding rail and guided vehicles for mass transit.

You will conclude with adequate research that:

.. Age of the investment does not affect overall costs much.
.. Population density is a crucial measure of success.
.. Subsidies are required for nearly every system.
.. About 28,000 ppl/sq mi (45 ppl/acre) is the about minimum population density for success.

Once 28,000 ppl/sq mi has been reached, light rail makes sense because of the productivity gains for the work force. It appears that by comparison San Fernando has a density of only 6700 ppl/sq mi. Trinidad has a population density that is one-tenth of that.

So you saying that PNM was wrong to start Rapid Rail or continue with it?