Well the other day (Monday 8 September) I was waiting for the bus as I recently started saving money on taxis by taking the bus, Buying a tag which saves me money if I take the Bus everyday for the next 30days of university.
Last week Wednesday Putco(which is the name of the Bus company) uhm... put in a new route. There is now a Bus that comes to Jozi from Cosmo City (where I stay) via Beyers Naude. I guess the response must have been great this time around( apparently they had tried the route before and it didn't quet work out) because the taxi drivers on friday stopped the Beyers Naude bus (I take the Randburg one) and told the people to take taxis. They tried this again on Monday this time i guess thinking they will I don't know stop all bus activity. They delayed the bus, we started thinking it was not coming (I didn't know about the thing from friday at the time) i went to try get a taxi. Some people join me and we all waiting for a taxi. An empty taxi pulls over as they sometimes do, we get on. Once in the taxi,, Taxi patrol (which is basically like these guys in a car writen "taxi patrol" who I think have to make sure things are fine with the taxis or something) pulls up next to us and they say we must be taken back to the taxi rank, where we would have to stand in a long line(queue) and be late... well the people would be late not me, I don't like standing in a line though so i got off the taxi, we all did (I was not the leader, but I did feel like a game of Simon says: "get off the taxi). The taxi, now empty again, goes back to the rank to get people. Taxi patrol waits for any other taxi to try and not take us to the taxi rank... IRRITATING isn't it?
to be continued...
1 comment:
What a shame, these taxi animals are one of the factors that are going to hold us back in terms of 2010 transportation progress.
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