DEMONSTRATING......They blocked off most of Jalan Bukit Bintang, demonstrating opposite purported supervision neglect.
By : PATRICK LEE
KUALA LUMPUR: About 200 cab drivers blocked off most of Jalan Bukit Bintang for multiform hours today in a criticism opposite what they say is a government's refusal to address their problems.
Parking their cars in front of a Grand Millenium Hotel, a drivers demanded a assembly with a Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD).
Cabbies told reporters which they were protesting opposite a city's free-to-ride GO-KL train service, which was introduced in two renouned routes final month.
However, deputy Mohammad Asharaf Yasin, 45, pronounced which a free train ride was usually partial of a problem which local drivers faced everyday.
"We have been additionally angry with SPAD. They follow us away from a roadside everyday. They emanate summonses to us while giving a cab stands to a large cab companies [to handle].
"Now with a GO-KL train service, they have been not usually picking up a locals, though additionally a tourists. For free! How have been you to make money now?" he said.
Despite a participation of some-more than 20 police officers, nothing intervened.
SPAD officials were nowhere to be found. This hurt a cabbies who afterwards blocked a whole widen of a highway up to a Fahrenheit 88 sell! ing mall .
Some KL City Hall (DBKL) officials showed up in an strong move to emanate summonses though it infuriated a cab drivers.
Upon saying these officers, multiform cabbies rushed during them, gesturing as well as cheering loudly, distant usually by a line of policemen. The DBKL men were afterwards whisked away.
Acting like gangsters
Later, a little cabbies told FMT which a criticism was additionally opposite a heavy-handed movement of SPAD officials who allegedly intimidated a drivers along a busy widen during about 7.30pm final night.
According to a police inform lodged by motorist Mohd Jamal Abd Nasir Mohd Saad, 51, officers from 4 SPAD-marked cars tormented him as well as his friends.
"The officers came with a intention of display who was some-more powerful, SPAD or a cabbies they were severe as well as provocative," a inform said.
Today, a cabbies pronounced which SPAD officers acted like "gangsters".
The criticism additionally saw a horde of issues bring to boil over. Driver Zainal Mohd Kassim, 45, pronounced which both SPAD as well as a supervision abandoned their pleas for most years.
"It is so difficult to consequence a living," pronounced Zainal who has been driving for 20 years.
He pronounced which both KL hotels as well as foreign-themed restaurants in use their own touts, as well as even hired illegal taxis (or kereta sapu) for their guests.
He estimated which KL has thousands of taxis, though a supervision one after another to emanate cab permits.
A 2011 Malay Mail article staid which a city has some-more than 37,000 taxis, compared to New York City's 13,000-odd cabs.
"Why h! ave been they [government] putting out brand new taxis? When have been they starting to listen to us? After a next elections?"
A cabbie of 3 years, Anuar Omar, 52, asked why cabbies were authorised to take passengers to a KL International Airport, though were stopped from taking passengers from a airport. "How can you have such a law?"
At about 7pm, SPAD officials finally turned up as well as met with multiform member of a cab drivers in a closed-door meeting. They discussed nine issues raised by a cabbies. They were:
-the GO-KL train service;
- a RM2 banking charges during selected locations;
-lack of cab stands as well as parking, especially along Jalan Bukit Bintang;
-continuous distribution of cab permits;
-easier renovation of drivers' registration cards;
-alleged severe movement of SPAD officials;
-hotel-sponsored touts in a city;
-airport pickup restrictions; and
-prohibiting taxis in a Klang Valley from starting over Ipoh, Pahang as well as Malacca.
Speaking to a crowd later, SPAD Legal Department Chief, Farizul Hazli Baharom concluded to sit down with a member to discuss a issues as well as strech a solution.
Farizul additionally betrothed to take movement opposite any of his officials if they were found to have acted out of hand.
The cabbies dispersed peacefully during about 7.30pm. However, they betrothed which they would lapse if a issues were not settled.
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