Taxi hike
Taipei city, Taipei County, and Jeelung residents are one step closer to seeing taxi fares climb next month.
A working group has approved a hike in cab fares, and the proposal now needs Taipei City government approval. The proposal will leave the flag rate the same at 70 NT, but the meter will jump at current night time rates, with an additional 20 NT tacked on to night-time rides. That means while just getting on a taxi will cost you the same, that 70 NT only buys 1,250 meters of travel, down from 1,500 meters. The 5-NT ticks will also come faster, after every 250 meters or 1 minute 24 seconds of wait time, down from every 300 meters or 2 minutes of idling.
Overall, this translates into a price hike of about ten percent.
My opinion:
In recent years, prices keep going up; therefore, most of people become poverty-stricken in their own life. Nowadays, with raising the price of oil, the taxi fare is also hiking up. I think that the policy makes some people who take taxi frequently upset very much. Perhaps, due to the policy, people want more to take the public transport including MRT, train and bus, out of which the air pollution could be decreased. However, it is two-sided in effects: Taxi drivers have a great difficulty in their finance. Fluctuations in oil price will have led more and more various problems around us in the future.
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Nowadays price is really going up high, when price is going high, there is always advantages and disadvantages upon every one, but the one that gets the most advantages is the government(for they will have more tax.)
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