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  • This Is Why SA’s Metered Taxi Industry Is Doomed

    02 May 2014 by Seth Rotherham in Travel
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    While local taxi operators desperately scramble to update their tech in a quickly changing industry, their faults are being exposed more and more in mainstream media. Like this one in Business Day.

    Simon Reader’s article kicks off with this:

    IF THE devil rides into Johannesburg, it will be in a metered taxi — possibly a spluttering, bumperless Toyota Camry whose dishevelled state suggests it has been subjected to a Khulubuse Zuma love-in and is about as welcoming as a small, foul-smelling, very old porch dog (“stoepkakkertjie”).

    There are many things to loathe about metered taxis in Johannesburg.

    I loathe the way the drivers stand around transport nodes participating in what appears to be some exclusive Richard Mdluli lookey-likey competition. I loathe the vehicles themselves with their broken speedometers or petrol gauges or bent meters. I loathe the mandatory radio stations where the presenter sounds like a furious Shaman standing on a termite mound in rural KwaZulu-Natal about to turn some naughty shepherd into a cat. But most of all, I loathe the costs which are, at best, extortionate and, at worst, greed.

    Where is he going with this, you ask?

    Click here to read the whole thing.

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