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LTA will not renew Smart's taxi service operator licence Taxi firm Smart will not get its operator license renewed when it expires on Sept 30 this year, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Thursday. This reduces the number of taxi companies in Singapore to six. The LTA noted that Smart had multiple failures in its service standards over the past two years, such as consistently failing to meet the call booking cater rate. It also failed other standards such as accident rate and first inspection passing rate. In addition, the company failed to meet other regulations for its license to be renewed, including minimum fleet size. Its fleet shrunk from 701 in January last year to 268 last month, way below the minimum of 800. Smart's 268 taxis account for about 1 per cent of the total taxi population in Singapore. LTA chief executive Chew Hock Yong said its closure should not affect commuters much. The LTA will facilitate the sale of Smart's eligible taxi licenses to other operators, and to assist its drivers in finding another company. Smart customer service really quite poor. Complain about their taxi driver's reckless driving and they did not even get back to me about it.

Rescue efforts are now underway to excricate a man trapped inside the operator's seat of an overturned excavator in Novena Ville. It is understood that the excavator toppled sideways into a ditch at a construction site of a four-storey residential and commercial building at about 9am on Thursday. As of 10.30am, Singapore Civil Defence Force officers were at the construction site. They were seen using an onsite exacavator and hydraulic rescue equipment to try and free the man. Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/...ue-efforts-unde

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A CARPARK operator which at first won $3,000 from a motorist who drove off with one of its wheel clamps is now a lot poorer for having pushed its case through the courts. Blenwel Agencies now has to pay up 12 times the sum in legal costs - including $5,000 in costs - for bringing its case right up to the Court of Appeal. The Appeals Court, explaining its reasons in a judgement released last week, reminded lawyers against bringing up such 'hopeless applications' in future. Justifying the $5,000 in costs it put on Blenwel's tab, the court noted that the carpark operator had sought leave to appeal after its application for such leave had already been rejected by a district court and the High Court, and that the tab covered the work done by the motorist's lawyers in preparing for the appeal. Judge of Appeal Andrew Phang, writing on the court's behalf, said Blenwel had already used up - unsuccessfully - two chances to apply for leave to appeal under the law, so lawyers needed to think seriously about 'adverse consequences' before advising their clients to take the route to the Appeals Court. Blenwel's failure in the two lower courts set it back by $1,600 in costs, in addition to some $30,000 in legal fees for court hearings spanning three years. What a Joke !!

HAWKER-turned motor trader Neo Nam Heng is likely to become the next new taxi operator in Singapore. Mr Neo, 51, managing director of Cheng Yong Credit, one of the first parallel importers in Singapore, has applied to the Land Transport Authority for a taxi operating licence. The newest player - in a market cabbies insist is overcrowded but commuters say suffers from a shortage of cabs - will be unlike any taxi operator in Singapore. This is because Mr Neo plans to operate an environmentally friendly fleet of taxis and charge drivers the lowest daily rental in town. Prime Leasing plans to import petrol-driven cars and modify them to run on compressed natural gas (CNG). CNG cars are accorded a 40 per cent discount on additional registration fees (the main car tax) because they are deemed environmentally friendly. Hence these 'green' taxis will cost less than the diesel cabs currently on the road. This will enable Prime Leasing to set taxi rentals at just $69 per day, versus the current industry average of $90. Asked if he is worried about getting enough drivers - a problem even the big players face - Mr Neo said: 'There are about 40,000 drivers in the market. I need only 2 per cent of that.'' He reckons his scheme will attract only good and hardworking drivers, as it requires staying power and loyalty. 'Our rental is the cheapest in town,'' he reiterated. 'And our cars are brand new.'' Read the full story by Christopher Tan in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.