A free taxi ride initiative will be launched on January 2, but before you get too excited about the news, it’s only for expectant mothers who want to deliver their babies at government hospitals in KL. These ladies will be able to get a free ride to the hospital, courtesy of cabbies with the Kuala Lumpur Makkal Communication Taxi Drivers Association.
The Sun Daily reports that 50 taxi drivers have pledged to transport pregnant women for free for emergency deliveries only to the nearest government hospitals such as Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Selayang and Ampang Hospitals, within 20 minutes after receiving the call. The service will be available 24 hours a day.
“The service is for all, irrespective of race and religion. This is also part of the cabbies effort to weed out bad perception from the public that taxi drivers in the city are bad people. There are many kind-hearted cabbies in Kuala Lumpur as you can see for yourself,” City Hall excise licensing board chairman Datuk P. Gunaseelan said at the launch of the pilot project.
He explained that each taxi driver will allocate a minimum cost of at least RM70 per patient for one trip to a public hospital, adding that the project is looking to assist the poor, especially for those staying at the City Hall’s People’s Housing Project (PPR). Gunaseelan said he hoped the project can be expanded beyond KL as well as broaden in scope to include ferrying the disabled community during emergencies.
Down the line, the 50 cabs in the community scheme will be provided with stickers displaying their mobile numbers. In the meantime, the public can call Makkal Communication chairman K. Muthu for the free taxi services at 012-6957-864 or taxi driver K. Kumar at 010-2449-577, the report adds.
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Cease all these gimmicks la. If you really honest in what you are doing, at least what you can do is to eliminate the “few” bad apples that doesn’t use meter, selecting routes and rude. They are the ones that causing the ride sharing app to rise.
Awesome Social Initiative from our brader Makkal cabbies. Hope KLCC & Pavilion taxi gang could do better than this.
Atai vaittu!
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Talking about Obama, he is trying to destroy the country before his term ends.
And, there is no free lunch. I would choose to pay.
it is better than ntg, at least this is one of the plan, even though it might not benefit the majority(provided that if this successful run by the cabby).
keep it up Cabby! i believe you can do better than this! No need to go after app base, you can improve yourself and advertise your strength instead of bashing the GrabCar/Uber likes of services.
so, call for a cab instead of 999? this kind of cheapos shouldnt even be given any publicity. come on la.
The mother will drop their baby when riding uncomfortable taxi like Proton Iswara. Im still wondering why SPAD allowing this
No thanks
Wayang2 from our gangster taxi 1 malaysia… Later when there is a real incident, they will inform the expectant mother that their taxi not come under the free service… Some more this G women juz trying to get popularity by doing this stupid things. First change your car la… Even my expectant dog dont want to ride in ur junk car la… My dog prefer run to dog clinic to give birth la…. Muahahaha
this is like a olive branch from the taxis to the public is it??
because if it is , id like to propose that olive branch should go up their u know what!
That’s 1 heck of a fetish u have there bro. Seriously on cabbies?! LOL
pooodah….
There are so many problems, big and small problems for years havent solved and now……… these goons went and tackled the pregnant mothers???
What about the MAJORITY???
OMG…….these goons always bark on the wrong tree….syoik sendiri.
Fake Rajnikanth FTW
Bila sampai destinasi,Gangster will say” Sorry,today my anak no pocket money pergi sekolah,cos Grabcar ,Uber pancing saya punya customer.Sini envelope,put any amount you kesian saya.”
Hahaha… Thats expected… The taxi run by hooligans
Why expectant mothers? other no offer? who believe all these samseng, taxi will become history soon.
Good initiative but where and how to find those 50 indian taxi drivers in KL out of the thousands of taxi drivers?? Getting one of them in KL like striking lottery.