It is war between some taxi organizations and traffic officials in Cape Town, Dunoon, Joe Slovo and yesterday in the City of Cape Town. The reason being that taxi organizations demand from traffic officers to first consult them before issuing fines or impounding unsafe or unlicensed taxis. Yes, you heard right: Taxi bosses want to be ones deciding how much of the law applies for them and their drivers. Drivers complain in front of cameras that it causes hardship to be forced to pay fines. This is clearly mafia style and defies common sense.
It is time to salute the brave traffic cops and the City of Cape Town to finally reign in and stop these gangsters of the road who believe that all others come second in traffic. It is time to stop the endangerment of people on a daily base. It is time to stop negotiating with people who have no desire to follow traffic rules. And it is time to take whole organizations to account when violence is spreading like two weeks ago in Dunoon and Joe Slovo. It is a slap in the face of every tax payer fitting the bill for destroyed MyCity Bus Stations and business lost because of road closures and destruction. I still wait to see when the City will take the Dunoon Taxi Organisation to court to pay for all the damage done; issuing an apology and telling the public that they forgot to warn us all that they want to go on rampage is simply not good enough.
Let’s strengthen the back of all City officials in Cape Town and in other places, where there is stand off between those thinking they are the law of the roads and us tax payers trying to make a decent living. Life is hard enough with the economic situation and load shedding and all the other challenges.
Let’s give them the thumb up when we see them enforcing the law, let’s report any transgression of taxi drivers – a united front against those rowdies will also help the few decent hard working taxi drivers who have the courtesy of caring for those in the bus and around the vehicle.
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