Taxi associations plan to take to the streets

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http://www.eyewitness.co.za/story.aspx?id=2392

Taxi associations plan to take to the streets
Tshepo Lesole

Close to 20 taxi associations in Gauteng said they would block the roads next month if their management continues to ignore them.

Taxi operators said the top six taxi management and the South African National Taxi Council had been disregarding owners with regards to the Bus Rapid Transit negotiations with the government.

Johannesburg Southern Suburbs Association spokesperson, Ralth Jones, said the taxi industry did not want anything to do with the Bus Rapid Transit System.
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Sounds like a perfect opportunity to get the bulldozers out and get these scum off the road.

It's time for the showdown at the OK Corral.
 
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daveza said:
http://www.eyewitness.co.za/story.aspx?id=2392

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to get the bulldozers out and get these scum off the road.

It's time for the showdown at the OK Corral.
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LOL... it's nice to hear you so optimistic, but do you really think that is going to happen?

The metros will have a few cops out watching them bored while they block the roads for hours. "it is their right to protest" they will say. Eventually at the end of the day they will go home and millions of people will have been inconvenienced, millions or rands in fuel wasted and millions in business production lost.

Our staff usually don't come to work in such days although we have warned them they must make alternative plans if such happens. We don't pay them for missed work.
 
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Why does it have to benefit the taxi industry? That's what I want to know from them.
 
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who cares about the taxi industry? If it dies, it would be the best thing that ever happened.
 
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MielieSpoor said:
who cares about the taxi industry? If it dies, it would be the best thing that ever happened.
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How can you say that? I agree that taxi's are a pain in the @ss on the roads, but so many people rely on them and they create so many jobs. Would you want all the ex taxi drivers to also become robbers as they no longer have an income.
 
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Ady said:
How can you say that? I agree that taxi's are a pain in the @ss on the roads, but so many people rely on them and they create so many jobs. Would you want all the ex taxi drivers to also become robbers as they no longer have an income.
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There is no excuse for robbery. And I have no sympathy for taxi drivers. They don't belong on the roads. Besides, we all know what happens when taxi operators protest. Mayhem, chaos and looting and robbery.
 
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MielieSpoor said:
who cares about the taxi industry? If it dies, it would be the best thing that ever happened.
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A very retarded view. The taxi industry has boomed because government had decided to "outsource" public transport. Th only problem that most people have is that the taxi industry has refused to be regulated.

Government can either take the sledgehammer approach and take unilateral action or negotiate with taxi groups- who have learnt that the best way to exert pressure is to threaten violence.
 
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