Let's say what you say is true, does that mean all taxi drivers must all die? Does it mean that we must celebrate and rejoice whenever a taxi driver gets killed or washed away?
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Taxi Driver Washed Away
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Let's say what you say is true, does that mean all taxi drivers must all die? Does it mean that we must celebrate and rejoice whenever a taxi driver gets killed or washed away?
Albereth
Honorary Master
Yes because both those work woderfully in all parts of SA
I am sure that they did work wonderfully. I also believe that a study into the history of transport will reveal some rather unsavoury behaviour on the part of certain interest groups as to why the buses and trains no longer operate wonderfully.
Albereth
Honorary Master
I missed the smiley.
Albereth
Honorary Master
Can you pro-taxi types please get your numbers right.
Maybe go do some research before commenting. The trains were never meant for human transport on the scale we need to switch from taxi's to trains. Face it the apartheid era did not build things for 45 mill people but for 5-8 million. Why do you think the roads are not broad enough, why do you think the infrastructure is not coping?
As I said in africa there is no such thing as upkeep thus the busses and trains are also falling apart. Now I will not say the TDIA (taxi drivers illuminati ass. (puts on tinfoil hat)) has never done any damage to the above mentioned transporting systems but they are not responsible for the collapse of a system that was never meant to support these large scales in the first place.
Albereth
Honorary Master
Is 'all' your most favourite world of all time in all the world?
And whether you want to rejoice or celebrate is up to the individual. Not one person, including those who are quite keen for all taxi drivers to die, has suggested that celebrations should be compulsory.
i shouldn't smile, i think we're becoming seriously desensitized to these kind of things. we still see them as impersonal villains when they have families, lives, friends. imagine what they would think if they had to read this forum, and here some people are saying he deserved it, and for what?
people that start discussions like this for anything but discussion is cruel.
This from the guy that Supports the HIV virus going airborne and wiping out half the populace, nuf said!
According to ArriveAlive,
Public transport by taxis account for 65% of the transport total,
20% by bus and 15% by rail
Of the 36 lives lost daily on our roads – 3 are killed in taxi related incidents...
So maybe we should actually take cars of the roads, and have only taxi's, that way we save 33 lives a day instead of only 3!
http://www.arrivealive.co.za/pages.aspx?i=2850
Albereth
Honorary Master
Please state the right number and i will be happy to use them
I don't know what the right number is - you've used 60%, and sly used 70%. And I am fairly sure I can remember a 95% but that might have been someone guessing.
Hope I'm not starting to annoy you with my usage of the word "all", must I die too like all taxi drivers that annoy you?
According to ArriveAlive,
Public transport by taxis account for 65% of the transport total,
20% by bus and 15% by rail
Of the 36 lives lost daily on our roads – 3 are killed in taxi related incidents...
So maybe we should actually take cars of the roads, and have only taxi's, that way we save 33 lives a day instead of only 3!
http://www.arrivealive.co.za/pages.aspx?i=2850
Feel free to insert other foot into mouth Albereth
Also please read the post http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showpost.php?p=2584516&postcount=105
Albereth
Honorary Master
According to ArriveAlive,
Public transport by taxis account for 65% of the transport total,
20% by bus and 15% by rail
Of the 36 lives lost daily on our roads – 3 are killed in taxi related incidents...
So maybe we should actually take cars of the roads, and have only taxi's, that way we save 33 lives a day instead of only 3!
http://www.arrivealive.co.za/pages.aspx?i=2850
Okay - a number that has some plausibility.
And if you did take all the cars off the roads and just handed it to the taxis might not be too far out an idea. Have taxi only roads. But then taxis can't go on other roads.
Not too sure that 33 are car related deaths though. Don't pedestrians account for a few deaths? And, of course, we have karma to blame/thank for at least one of yesterday's tally.
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Well I don't think it really matters if it's 60% or 70%, what matters is that a large chunk of this country's workforce use taxis to get to work and contribute to the economy and get back home (using taxis) to feed their families after going to a shopping mall (using taxis) to buy groceries and/or clothes for themselves and their family.
Albereth
Honorary Master
Annoyed? - Not at all.
And I am sorry that you are questioning your continued existence but, ethically, I cannot answer that for you. You could call Lifeline.
// hands troll another cookie
Here you go lad
Aaarg thanks, no wait that is a pirate.
On a serious note, you guys are debating a topic that is no longer present, Sly21C is going non stop about the fact that we want them all to die, and you are Devill are non stop "they transport 60% of our work force blah blah" all we were saying is that they are reckless drivers and a danger to society. Please re-read thread as I think you forgot what was said.
Albereth
Honorary Master
Feel free to insert other foot into mouth Albereth
Also please read the post http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showpost.php?p=2584516&postcount=105
What on earth are you on about or am I just wrong in my understanding of the meaning of 'foot in mouth'?
And, to think that we had been doing so well without apartheid being blamed. But on that point, the grand architects had provided exactly the right infrastructure to support what they wanted supported. So perhaps your argument ought to be broader and encompass all forms of social engineering being abhorent. The downside, of course, will be that no meaningful planning can take place and that the transport infrastructure would never have grown to accomodate a change in demand.
You have mentioned that apartheid is responsible for narrow roads. It really wouldn't matter how wide the roads are (except theoretically). 6 lanes of road will be full and you'll still have a taxi trying to use the emergency lane. 12 lanes of road will be full, and yes, the taxi will be in the emergency lane. This is the nature of the beast.
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Kloofvreter
Honorary Master
You mean safe public transport? Do you think the taxi bosses will be pleased with that? I don't...