Cabbies take their grouses to Parliament


Action organisation submits chit as well as blames supervision for a complement they say does not favour cab drivers
KUALA LUMPUR: Aggrieved cab drivers have criticised a supervision over a complement which they say is a worst of a kind in a world.
Metered Taxi Drivers Action Group (BBPTB) chairman Amran Jan pronounced which Malaysia's convoluted complement caused a public to view cabbies in a negative light.
The organisation had progressing claimed to paint twenty-one cab associations, or 2,000 cab drivers.
Speaking to reporters in Parliament today, Amran, who was accompanied by multiform of comrades, said: "Taxi drivers have been not to blame. It is a failure of a complement itself."
Among a issues lifted by Amran enclosed a brawl over a series of cab permits issued, a cab coupon system, purported slight by a Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) as well as a Transport Ministry, as well as being taken value of by cab companies.
They addressed these issues in a memorandum, which they handed over to Pakatan Rakyat MPs, including PKR-Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar, PAS-Kuala Krai MP Hatta Ramli as well as PKR-Kuala Langat MP Abdullah Sani.
The cabbies appeared to be undone with SPAD, claiming a elect was turning a deaf ear to their concerns.
At a same time, Amran asked because a Transport Ministry had failed to have a matter upon internal cabbies, criticising Minister Kong Cho Ha over a matter.
'A lot of baggage'
He also asked because queries over cab motorist issues had been handed over to a Prime Minister's Departmen! t, citin g their responses in Parliament.
These factors led him to malign SPAD, adding which he as well as other cabbies intended to encounter with a Transport Ministry over their grouses in a next 3 weeks.
Amra's colleague, S Manugaran, also attacked a internal media for not taking their side.
"We have a reputation. My children can't go to school as well as say which their father is a cab driverdon't destroy our image," he said.
Pakatan Rakyat MPs who were benefaction also lent their support to these cabbies.
Blaming a government, Abdullah said: "They have been not since EPF, SocsoThis is a flawed complement you cannot accept. The Transport Ministry has to take charge."
Taxi drivers were recently catapulted in to a inhabitant spotlight when more than 200 of them demonstrated along Jalan Bukit Bintang over purported supervision neglect.
In a response, a SPAD source told FMT which it was trying to fix cab motorist system. He pronounced SPAD had hereditary problems which were benefaction prior to a commission's formation in 2010.
"When you took over (from a Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board), there was need to rationalise a whole thing, relate behind to a Public Transport Masterplan as well as look at it from a holistic indicate of view," pronounced a source.
The source certified which SPAD was saddled with "a lot of baggage", as well as which many of a problems were not as straightforward as many people thought.
There have been about 37,000 taxis in KL, along with 70,000 opposite a country, thorough of limosuine taxis, let cabs as well as bill models.
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