KINIBIZ Oh, what is this? Does this Tiger detect some sense coming from someone in the government at long last? So it seems! Finally, someone in government who does not say the darndest thing!

For some context, Tiger is referring to Treasury secretary-general Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah, who also happens to be the chairperson of the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC). The MaGIC chairperson urged taxi operators to cooperate with alternative taxi services like Uber to provide high-quality services to passengers in major cities nationwide.

“Otherwise, they have to find ways to provide better service to compete with Uber and other alternative taxi companies,” said Irwan Serigar, adding that the existence of an alternative taxi service should not be a problem for existing taxi operators, “because users will choose them if they provide better service at reasonable fares”.

Well, here’s another heavyweight who has thrown his weight behind ridesharing, and has addressed the matter of change. That the people want change in their public transport system cannot be dismissed any longer, as evidenced by the results of the poll by the Land Public Transport Commission (Spad), which showed that a majority of citizens would rather take a ridesharing service over a taxi.

There are taxi drivers who had put the blame of this matter on Spad, saying that this occurred due to a lack of proper enforcement by the commission, and continued to press the point that ridesharing vehicles are uninsured and unsafe.

Honestly, Tiger thinks that they are flogging a dead horse, and remain in the river in Egypt regarding their own attitude to the matter. Again, Tiger stresses that not all taxi drivers are bad or attempting to overcharge with that bad attitude that works well on Max in ‘Fury Road’ but not on them.

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This article was written by Xavier Kong.