NG Kwan Shing, convener of an alliance of Taxi groups, said the platform would ask traditional taxi drivers to follow a charter that will require them to meet certain service standards.
If drivers failed to meet certain standards, they would lose points under a rating system. Drivers who scores full too low could then be banned from working the app.
NG, speaking during an RTHK talkshow yesterday, said car cleanliness and occurrences of abuse such as price gouging would be covered in the system. A complaint hotline would also be set up.
"This is something we must do. We have to deal with it now because operational standards of taxes have dropped dramatically in the past decade" NG said.
The plan comes amid new competition from mobile car hailing apps. Many commuters are fed up with the daily abuse of cabdrivers, such as price gouging during bad weather and refusing fares unless the destination suits them.
Andrew Shuen Pak-man, founder of the Lion Rock Institute which advocates a free market, said passengers were most upset by drivers refusal to take them to unpopular destinations and their failure to know the best route was also an increasing problem.
Shuen said these were the comments given in a survey of 500 Hong Kong residents the Institute had recently interviewed on the street.
Source SCMP.com
5 comments:
An interesting concept. Its a bit like someone trying to replicate Facebook. Ffs, we already have plenty of instant hailing apps for licensed taxis in London: Hailo, Gett, Cab App etc. Non of them have any work and the public want Uber... Meanwhile the radio circuits are still shoveling work into PH. There ain't gonna be no revival, new technology is here to stay and it will soon be legalized.
The cab trade has been sold out by the Vichy collaborators that are now asking you to sit in silence while TfL legitimize PH instant hailing apps... I wipe my are with trade press publications and I refuse to pay for building extentions or paying tax bills of those who are demanding 50p a day for their services.
Anon 12:38
Your out of touch mate
You could have got this from an org If you were in one.
Yo seem to know all the answers, tell them where they are going wrong
For the first time ever, a line is being drawn cutting off past. Scores have been settled and they are ready for action
Only ones dragging their feet are the two so called militant unions.
Orgs have put up money for legal challenges
LTDA has put £1m in the pot.
12:38.
£1m wasted. Its too late.
Joining a trade org or going on Twitter isn't going to abolish new technology, its here to stay. As for the Ltda, they might of said they are putting up £1m but in reality the only money being spent is on the ad van. AN Other, you might be championing the Ltda, but I very much doubt you are a member!
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