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I think this is bulls**t. Pple can't get a taxi that's why have to book. With all the cabbies doing stunts, one cannot get a taxi just by flagging along the road side anymore. http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/S...ory_625208.html. Jan 17, 2011 More book taxis in stronger economy By Chong Zi Liang THE number of passengers choosing to book a taxi instead of flag one down soared last year compared to previous years. The two taxi operators with the largest fleet in Singapore both reported a steep spike in the number of bookings they handled last year. Leading the pack was transport operator ComfortDelGro, with 24 million taxi bookings last year, a 37 per cent jump from 17.5 million bookings in 2009. It is a record high for the company which first launched the service in 1996. ComfortDelGro has more than 15,000 taxis. TransCab, the taxi operator with the second-largest fleet at about 3,800 taxis, managed only 300,385 bookings last year.

Very funny, MAS escape end up blame peasants for being complacent. Am I complacent? My answer is definitely NO!

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian referee Mauro Bergonzi was sent into hiding by police after thugs tried to attack someone he looked like, the head of the country's referees' association has said. Bergonzi awarded two contentious penalties in Napoli's 3-1 win over Juventus in October. "A dangerous incident happened. A group of people encircled someone they thought was a referee, they tried to abduct him and continually punch him. The only thing was he just looked like the referee," Cesare Gussoni told Friday's La Repubblica newspaper. "He was a bank manager, poor thing, and he managed to reveal this at the end to save himself from more blows. On the advice of the police, the referee was forced to live under protection and went to another province for two weeks." Former leading referee Pierluigi Collina, who now appoints officials for Italian games, has been sent bullets in the post and has been given a police escort as supporters' anger grows following a number of controversial decisions this season. Italy still remembers the 2006 match-fixing scandal, where Juve were demoted and other clubs had points deducted after being found guilty of procuring favorable referees for some matches. Meanwhile, Bulgarian referee Valeri Petrovski is recovering in hospital after being beaten up near his home in Sofia, police said Friday. "I was in the car, waiting for my wife, when two men attacked me with baseball bats and knuckledusters," Petrovski told reporters. The 43-year-old Petrovski, considered one of the country's leading referees, began officiating matches in the Bulgarian top division in 1996. (Writing by Mark Meadows, additional reporting by Angel Krasimirov; editing by Miles Evans) http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idU...ndChannel=10004

So many pple think by buying a car will justify the ever rising cab fare?Beware it is a trap set by govt as more cars equal to more congestion, sustain COE price or even increase, petrol price increase or ERP increase than you regret buying car. Anyway, other than complaining ,we must remember that every car we buy, we give 1 to our govt. exp like AFF of 110% of OMV, GST on the car,registration,insurance,road tax and lastly bank loan to finance the car. It all $$$$$$ to our govt coffers. So think twice before jumping into it.

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