Good news for commuters. Fares for Teksi 1Malaysia (TEKS1M) will be lower beginning next month, The Sun reports. TEKS1M fares, which are currently higher than that of budget taxis, will be rationalised to the same level as their budget counterparts.
Currently, the TEKS1M fare starts from RM4, plus 30 sen for every 200m while the budget taxi flagfall rate starts from RM3 plus 25 sen for every 200m. The time-based charge for budget taxis is 25 sen for every 36 seconds while it is 30 sen for every 36 seconds for TEKS1M.
However, this will only be mandatory for new TEKS1Ms. “The existing TEKS1M fleet will have the option of remaining at the present fare structure until the expiry of the vehicle age limit,” said Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) CEO Mohd Azharuddin Mat Sah.
This move, which many drivers welcome, is part of the government’s Taxi Industry Transformation Programme (TITP), and it involves rebranding and streamlining for the long term as well. New budget cabs will be rebranded as TEKS1M with a colour scheme of red and white from next month, and new TEKS1Ms will no longer be in gold and brown, the colour it was launched in.
Once again, this rebranding is only for new taxis, especially those with a new individual taxi operator licence. Existing budget cabs will remain in their respective colours. These old cabs will only go through the rebranding when their taxi permits expire. When that time comes, the Proton Iswaras will be phased out for models with a minimum three-star rating from ASEAN NCAP.
The SPAD boss also confirmed that the zonal fare system that was gazetted during the previous Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board era will be phased out gradually. “Zonal fare will be replaced by a distance based calculation to ensure consistency and fairness to taxi drivers at terminals and airports,” he said.
The zonal fare queue system is currently practised by the KL International Airport, Skypark Subang Airport, KL Sentral, other international entry points in Peninsula Malaysia and some shopping malls in the Klang Valley. Mohd Azharuddin also encouraged cabbies to embrace booking apps to increase efficiency.
More on the Taxi Industry Transformation Programme (TITP), which will also legalise and regulate Uber and Grab cars, here.
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ok, samseng red teksi going to come out protest soon.
It’s good to hear that (Y)
I thought their meter are dummy set?
Foeever and ever changing policy! When all these nonsense going to stop, Mr SPAD.
if only they use the meter, this would be useless..
Anything 1M is synonymous to corruption. You may as well call it TEKSMO1.
Cheaper does not mean it’s cheap. The poor fellow who earn less than 2k will feel the pinch when they use the service. A ride to KLIA cost more than the flight ticket offered by Air Asia.
Having said that, it’s a good start to lower the fare. Hope the poor will be able to benefits from the little savings bcos it will mean a few ringgit save to buy some milk powder for the kids.
Skybus KL sentral-KLIA2 RM10
Kid, go back and finish up your homework ok?
That’s a good advice bro. Now I go back & finish my homework & U please stop smoking whatever U are smoking bcos U are wasting your mother $$$ while I study ah.
From what I heard many of teksim exoras were repossessed. Cannot stand the installment pay though not that much
whatever transformation program wont work as long red-tape cronies having mental to slaughter the consumer as the ultimate objectives. none of them are creating any good for the country but themselves.
all auto related industries are counter productive to the nation but consuming unnecessary RM benefit those sitting there cronies.
1) manufacture car cant export
2) local car price high
3) buses burning money and cost public fund due to lousy planning and action
4) Tol! Tol! Tol!
its all about cronies
whip all these and country deficit will be reduce, since what they do is getting G money AND consumer RM through monopolised policies
Change branding next two years as expected.. no solid plan from gov.
Malaysia has been labeled as world most notorious taxi service provider for ~10 years. What has our government did to improve the ranking? It would be not fair to say they did nothing, but basically they did something but Malaysia is still holding the crown for many years.
Government know the problem, they have the authority and power, but they didn’t use them to rectify the problem. And now private sector just use little help and rectify the whole car service provider. People just want good service and fair price. Malaysia government servant has the highest worker index in the world, but not efficiency.
Sometimes you will be stunned by the statement they made. And the proposal is as good as nothing if no enforcement is made to take care of it.
“Malaysia government servant has the highest worker index in the world”
Where do you get that?
Our taxis have been painted with almost all color spectrum (red, blue, gold, pink, green, yellow and black) but the service still like crap. SPAD please wake up. I challenge the CEO to take taxi everyday to work to see the the real problem with taxis.
Even with existing fare scheme taxi driver refuse to use the meter. By lower down the fare definetely will make them do not want to use the meter at all.
However, the idea to phase out the zonal fare queue system is a brilliant idea. It is because normally even the taxi have a long queue but when passenger ask to go somewhere which is far or a bad congestion road they will decline. If they passenger stop the other taxi that passed by they will threatened the taxi driver who pick up in their area.
Uber is still way cheaper.
Better boycott them. they are not sincere. They are doing this because of Uber and Grab. If not for Uber and Grab, they will hantam us kaw kaw. Greedy crony company.
No need ton reduce fare if 1) Use vehicle less than 2yrs 2) D segment cars 3) Drivers had gone through courtesy lessons.
All the while we kept hearing cheaper fare but how many are using meter? Why can’t they develop an app similar to Uber? User can see the distance and charges on the app. Then they can result lodge complaints if the driver took them on a ride or overcharge.
lol, really don’t know what these guys doing….colors doesn’t matter to us….the things matter to us is your service, charges and car maintenance…change the color doesn’t change the quality of service…
SPAD is going to cause more confusion – how can taxis operate at different fare levels? Very dumb move. Should just standardize all fares to that of budget taxis.
Anyway, not a big deal. Most of us will be taking UBER/Grab anyway. Local taxi industry will die a slow death unless they are prepared to change their ways.