Serious The main reason why taxi fares in S’pore is so expensive (whose fault is it?)

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Over the years, everything has become more expensive, from your kang kong to your Prada bag. So it comes as no surprise that taxi fares have been increasing in the last few years—not that we are any happier about it, of course.

When it happened, we start complaining about how our hard earned wages are getting “eaten”, about how everything cost more but our wages remained the same and more. But one thing we have forgotten to ask, or maybe we didn’t bother to, is why it happened.

Is it the cost of fuel? Well, fuel prices have dropped but hey, surprise-surprise, the taxi fare hasn’t. In fact, the only place we saw prices drop back down once supply increases are probably FairPrice (just think back to the egg price hikes and subsequent fall).

Taxi commuters pay an average of $10, for a distance between Yishun and Kovan which is approximately 20 km. However, this does not include your peak hour surcharges, booking charges, location charges and so on and so forth.

It’s no wonder that we prefer to go along with Uber/Grab, as long as there’s no crazy driver.

So is it the taxi drivers’ fault or is there more to it?

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