The Transport Ministry confirmed that it has never issued any permit or licence to any firm offering “motorcycle taxi” services to the public, Bernama reports.
Referring to Dego Ride, which currently offers a paid “taxi-motor” service, Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi said the service was deemed illegal under the Road Transport Act 1987.
“So far, no licences have been issued for motorcycle taxi riders, if they conduct such a business, it is illegal,” he said, and added that riders who provide such services could be charged for misusing their personal motor vehicle licences for commercial purposes.
Dego Ride operates in a similar fashion to the ojek service in Indonesia and motoesai rap chang in Thailand, providing a quicker alternative to get around the traffic woes in the city.
Users can hail the taxi-motor service via a smartphone application, with base fares starting from as low as RM2.50 for the first 3 km, and RM0.60 for every subsequent kilometre. The service was first introduced in November last year.
On a separate matter, Ab Aziz said the government would only allow Uber and Grab services to operate using smartphone applications, with laws to regulate the ride-hailing services set to be tabled in Parliament on March 6.
He was commenting on taxi touts that abused Uber and Grab platforms at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). “Uber and GrabCar use virtual applications, they (regular drivers) cannot be ulat (touts) because they need to be registered (on the respective platforms),” he said.
“At the KLIA terminal, we already have enforcement by JPJ (Road Transport Department) and SPAD (Land Public Transport Commission) in collaboration with MAB (Malaysia Airports Berhad) as the administrator there,” he added.
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Perkhidmatan LRT dan monorel lebih selamat & jimatkan masa ….
Jimat mende ny kalau tmpt yg dituju tu xd stesen monorel / lrt
Itulah tujuan adanye feeder bus. takan u nak tren sampai depa rumah u.
Tepat john..feeder bus ini dipanggil connectivity batuan pertama dan yg terakhir.
Tanggungjawab kita sebagai rakyat ialah untuk menyahut segala seruan kerajaan bagi menjamin perpaduan dan menjana ekonomi yang utuh untuk segenap lapisan masyarakat. Saya sokong usul menteri sepenuh hati demi sebuah sistem pengangkutan yang efisyen untuk warga kota. – Faiz Roslan CEng
Betul betul betul
Gomen patut lulus all ‘e-hailing’ apps termasuk Uber, Grabcar
And now only I know got such service…
Heck i don’t even know either
As far as i know we don’t even have motorcycle taxi services unlike our neighbors due to safety reason
Somebody must smart in the wrong way
Kalau DegoRide nak legal kenalah ubahsuai motor macam motor bai roti, passenger duduk senyap-senyap dalam tong hijau tu
Hahahaha.. entry of the day
so for fast food delivery, courier service delivery, postal service delivery that use motorbike driver…
are these consider commercial driver?
sejak aku kecik posmen pakai moto.. dari kawasaki ke honda.
If u can legalize uber so why not dego. It is a different mode of transport after all. Unlike uber which compete with taxi, dego does not. But wait a minute, unless u have shares in uber or proton and would not want anymore competition for it then that would be the only reason not to allow dego. Fishy..
There is nothing fishy about it. It’s just that time is required to figure a “proper plan to execute” in order that they can claim a lion share of the pie! It’s just another avenue to collect more income for the powers-that-be and the reason they will probably give is that this income will be needed to build schools and roads etc for the rakyat just like GST. If that was true, then what is the purpose of Income Tax? Then again perhaps the powers-that-be shouldn’t be in power especially if they have not the brains to go with power in the first place.
Ini lebih logik sikit kalau guna BR1M beli motosikal.
Safe? I won’t bet my life on it.
Might consider booking one to rempit around KL though!
Why does it take the transport ministry 3 months to comment that an illegal motor taxi “could be charged? If illegal then charge them, consficate the bike and cut licesen in half! All lip service and excuses.¿
Cost of living shooting up and income is flat. People have to resort to extreme measures to save money. If the govt cannot solve the first two problems then it should just let the people help themselves.
In the first place, pipu shud help themselves first b4 go to Gov.
Many senior civil servants help themselves first, with public funds and deadak. Oh waiii
it is actually not practical, women for sure dont want to take motorcycle taxi, husband & wife, does they allow their partners to take motorcycle taxi? but uber and grabcar is good cause u have space within the car. Be positive guys
The minister try to tell us that he & his ministry VERY slow cope to changes. That’s why we’re stuck at the current progress. People talk about autonomous car & hyperloop at some part of the world, yet he’s referring to an old document?
1st u nak ban motor masuk KL. now u tak bagi motor jadi taxi. double standard sial