I use taxis daily and I've had my fare share of crazy and unbearable taxi ride experiences. From being dropped off at the wrong spot to being squashed in the back seat and being driven like I was in F1 racing car.
An article that was published in 2009 has made its way back on to twitterville raising questions of safety and repercussions of reckless driving in the taxi industry. What seriously disturbs me about this article is not that the driver had five outstanding warrants against him already, but that he was only given a fine for overloading 100+ people in a car made only for 26 people. I shudder to think how 105 children were seated in that vehicle, but also how could 8 adults consent to such unsafe travelling conditions.
With 36 lives lost daily on our roads – 3 being killed in taxi related incidents I think a lot more reinforcement needs to be done to keep commuters safe when using public transport.
Clearly issuing fines is not working as there are many other taxi drivers still driving recklessly, overloading with passengers and just causing chaos on the roads, they just haven't been caught and taken to task!
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