Taxing away

Mumbai pple will know these sad stories
Scene1
boy gets down at Airport and wants to go to say Lower Parel
he sits in a cab and viola! it costs him 300 bucks
if the boy is a foreigner it costs him 3000
actual fare 150 - 170???

Scene2
Boy wants to go from Lower Parel to Parel - distance - 2 Kms
fare 13 bucks
Chances of him finding a cab who will take him there - 0
Boy is white, all cabbies are willing,
fare is 100 bucks

What is happening here is greed and a misplaced sense of injustice
Greed one may cure, what do we do with this sense of injustice

the cab drivers claim that they cant make ends meet so they have to resort to these and many other short cuts to a full pocket

other tricks being
a super fast meter,
wrong fare card and
the classic lost my way

Did you know that, we are still paying them petrol engine fares.
the new CNG engines are 4 times more fuel efficient!!!

Solution
In mumbai we are blessed with a police force that is not awed by the taxi force
just tell the nearest one and he will make sure the cabbie will take you in
He will not know of course that the cabbie can drop you off at the next corner, where he knows there is no cop.

This is funny is it not.
the penalty for not taking a passenger is suspention of the taxi driver's permit for 3 months, yet they can do it with impunity

Pls do carry the traffic control room no. and you are safe
I have few reasons to praise any Police,
but Mumbai Police is another creature.......

We as consumers have to fight this evil
we made a cartel and quit using cabs that were not making short hauls
The stand got wise and started doing short hauls and now all are happy

Where the stands have not gotten wise, everyone still suffers

Fight it or do not crib is my motto!!