Definitions:
Desperate Taxi Drivers: These types of drivers will park outside brothels and other buildings including no stopping and no standing zones loitering for a fare! They are desperate. They want money to pay for the harsh, unjust and unlawful rental charge of the taxis they drive. Many brothel operators and workers do not like them outside their premises as their presence drives away some customers!
Shameless Taxi Drivers: Like the “Desperate Taxi Drivers” they also park in streets or street corners when they see someone is just walking or kissing each others for reasons well known to them! They expect, these people will catch a taxi when they finish their business. These shameless taxi drivers even do not know that they may not have a chance of getting a fare!
Misguided and Rude Taxi Drivers: They are worse than “Desperate Taxi Drivers” and “Shameless Taxi Drivers”! They will slow down taxis, beep people walking on the road and then they will ask, “do you want taxis”? Generally speaking they are taxi mafia’s “Apartheid School Graduate” as well as misguided and overcharged “Silver Drivers”!
Drug Courier Taxi Drivers: Over the last few years two taxi drivers used taxis to drop drugs! All of these groups mentioned above would like to work and have a decent days pay! However due to endemic corruption, taxi mafia manipulation, false advertising and false representations with the assistance of many state and political entities all of those workers never experienced a safe work practice, safe work place or minimum wage!
Many taxi drivers have been fighting for a safe work practice, safe work place or minimum wage for a long time and they are facing brick walls harder than “Apartheid Wall of Israel”. Surprisingly, many state instrumentalities have been handing over money and power to taxi mafia to subdue and subjugate taxi drivers and owners. On many occasions, the state government departments have been wasting public funds and power and authority vested on them to prosecute innocent and helpless taxi drivers!
Public Servants: They are servants of the people and paid by the people. They are supposed to be serving the state and the people. However, many documents including many links and documents including links of Target Beyond Taxi Mafia Game and Beyond suggest that they are NOT protecting the interest of the state and public. Sadly, one can find their actions and inactions are contrary to the wish and interest of the state and public as well blatantly pro taxi mafia!
Elected Officials: Like “public servants” they are elected and paid by the public with an expectation to protect the wishes and interests of the state and the public. Alas! They too, are working for the taxi mafia and against the wishes and interests of the state, public, taxi drivers, taxi owners and passengers! Isn’t it sad, bad and shameful?
Can someone answer me:
1. Are these “Public Servants” and “Elected Officials” better or worse than any category of taxi drivers mentioned above?
2. Should they be allowed to flog the dead horse i.e. taxi drivers for their own misdemeanors, mistakes and crimes?
1. Are these “Public Servants” and “Elected Officials” better or worse than any category of taxi drivers mentioned above?
2. Should they be allowed to flog the dead horse i.e. taxi drivers for their own misdemeanors, mistakes and crimes?
Issues of Concern
A. Taxi plates are the property of the State and public. Taxi plates must be used for the benefit of the State and the public. No public servants and politicians should be protecting the interest of the counterproductive investors. Such a pro-investor policy is contrary to the wish and interest of the state, public, taxi drivers and taxi owners.
B. The Safety and comfort of the public and drivers ought to be the top priority of the taxi industry. No one should be kowtowing to the taxi mafia because the taxi industry is a service industry and totally different from a casino or the stock exchange. The regulatory priority must be targeted for a safe and comfortable journey for the public. It is the responsibility for the state government to provide safer work practices and work place. They also should remove any and all ambiguity as well as ensure proper compliance of the duty of care provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
C. The practice of handing over many types of taxi plates to s selective few appears to be a very corrupt process and contrary to public and state interest. Too many politically expedient “quick-fixes” have created a maze of convoluted structures, largely devoid of stakeholder participation. Silencing and sabotaging many reports and inquiries regarding this issue is blatant proof of the deception and fraud. Furthermore, suffocating and hoodwinking the public in its genuine efforts to win some accountability and transparency within the NSW Department of Transport, Ministry of Transport and other bodies were in the past and still are at the present very devious and intimidatory. Like the old days, taxi plates should be issued to only working taxi drivers with a provision of temporary relief in case of death and disablement. In the recent past, the authorities started to hand over taxi plates to the taxi mafia and many people who should not have been allowed into the taxi industry in the first place! They also made it very difficult, if not impossible, to ensure accountability and transparency by keeping the taxi owners register secret.
D. The Taxi Networks/Call centre must be accountable to public and drivers. The long overdue regulatory reform was requested back in 1993 to the relevant authorities! Surprisingly they did nothing! In other words the government departments are rewarding greedy and lazy taxi networks for short changing public and drivers. By the same time, the same public servants are bad mouthing taxi drivers to hoodwink the public. This is unconscionable and unacceptable. No honest and decent public servants and elected officials would follow this shameless path.
B. The Safety and comfort of the public and drivers ought to be the top priority of the taxi industry. No one should be kowtowing to the taxi mafia because the taxi industry is a service industry and totally different from a casino or the stock exchange. The regulatory priority must be targeted for a safe and comfortable journey for the public. It is the responsibility for the state government to provide safer work practices and work place. They also should remove any and all ambiguity as well as ensure proper compliance of the duty of care provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
C. The practice of handing over many types of taxi plates to s selective few appears to be a very corrupt process and contrary to public and state interest. Too many politically expedient “quick-fixes” have created a maze of convoluted structures, largely devoid of stakeholder participation. Silencing and sabotaging many reports and inquiries regarding this issue is blatant proof of the deception and fraud. Furthermore, suffocating and hoodwinking the public in its genuine efforts to win some accountability and transparency within the NSW Department of Transport, Ministry of Transport and other bodies were in the past and still are at the present very devious and intimidatory. Like the old days, taxi plates should be issued to only working taxi drivers with a provision of temporary relief in case of death and disablement. In the recent past, the authorities started to hand over taxi plates to the taxi mafia and many people who should not have been allowed into the taxi industry in the first place! They also made it very difficult, if not impossible, to ensure accountability and transparency by keeping the taxi owners register secret.
D. The Taxi Networks/Call centre must be accountable to public and drivers. The long overdue regulatory reform was requested back in 1993 to the relevant authorities! Surprisingly they did nothing! In other words the government departments are rewarding greedy and lazy taxi networks for short changing public and drivers. By the same time, the same public servants are bad mouthing taxi drivers to hoodwink the public. This is unconscionable and unacceptable. No honest and decent public servants and elected officials would follow this shameless path.
Time is right to come clean. The NSW Government must:
1. Recall all Nexus Taxi Plates and other types of taxi plates given to taxi networks and companies. They are state property and must be utilised for the benefit of the state and public. It is being said, that 95% of the assets one taxi network are derived from these “generous” state handouts! A few other ”lucky” private individuals also may have received such “gigantic gifts” from the state government and as a result they have gained huge financial power and the ability to muzzle taxi drivers and misguide traveling public.
2. Demand that taxi networks and companies holding "free" plates must hand back the plates and the income generated by all Nexus Taxi Plates and other plates given to them by the government. Simply because they are state and public assets and they must be utilised for the public and the state. No fair minded person would be expecting to spend income generated by these state assets to trawl the wall or at Kings X.
3. Open up the Taxi Register like Company Registers. Why should the taxi industry be lacking in accountability and transparency? Who is getting the benefit out of such secrecy? Certainly not the public and the state!
4. Issue taxi plates to working taxi drivers only. (Instead of empowering taxi networks to intimidate taxi drivers, the Government must empower taxi drivers & operators to pressure networks into providing the booking services that the traveling public wants and is entitled to). In England they have a healthy taxi industry based on this model. No one apart from the taxi mafia have benefited from removing the seniority list register.
5. Gradually remove speculative investors from owning taxi plates. Remember, they brought corruption rather than creativity. Therefore, an honest government, not bonded by the taxi mafia should immediately enact legislation to remove any and all speculative investors.
6. Stop issuing false and misleading Media Releases like the one below. Stop past and future unnecessary harassment of taxi drivers in order to divert attention from the corruption and incompetence within the government and bureaucracy. During the “expensive” meeting with the Director General and his entourage they failed to present any solution or way forward based on any yardstick or management tools! No one told us what is the demand of taxis and therefore how many taxis will be required to match any and all demand in the first place! Furthermore, much anecdotal evidence exists which indicates that there is a lower demand for taxis in Sydney now. Most of the taxi ranks are overflowing at any time and day of the week. Even the KPI (Key Performance Indicators) of the T&I is saying that 35% of the time taxis are not on the road or utlised.
7. Re-establish the Taxi Advisory Council and Taxi Drivers' Safety Task Force as per the principles laid down by Justice Edwards and Beattie as well as Sir Asher Joel’s recommendations. Please ensure proper representation in those bodies. Last time, Peers Ackerman, Miranda Devine and many other people pressured to re-establish the Taxi Advisory Committee. Alas! The taxi mafia and the NSW TWU leadership sabotaged the good work and as a result now we are back to square one.
8. Allow and nurture the Taxi Advisory Council and Taxi Drivers' Safety Task Force without them being infiltrated by taxi mafia, stooges and Labor Party thugs.
9. Have a Taxi Royal Commission with widest possible Terms of Reference.
2. Demand that taxi networks and companies holding "free" plates must hand back the plates and the income generated by all Nexus Taxi Plates and other plates given to them by the government. Simply because they are state and public assets and they must be utilised for the public and the state. No fair minded person would be expecting to spend income generated by these state assets to trawl the wall or at Kings X.
3. Open up the Taxi Register like Company Registers. Why should the taxi industry be lacking in accountability and transparency? Who is getting the benefit out of such secrecy? Certainly not the public and the state!
4. Issue taxi plates to working taxi drivers only. (Instead of empowering taxi networks to intimidate taxi drivers, the Government must empower taxi drivers & operators to pressure networks into providing the booking services that the traveling public wants and is entitled to). In England they have a healthy taxi industry based on this model. No one apart from the taxi mafia have benefited from removing the seniority list register.
5. Gradually remove speculative investors from owning taxi plates. Remember, they brought corruption rather than creativity. Therefore, an honest government, not bonded by the taxi mafia should immediately enact legislation to remove any and all speculative investors.
6. Stop issuing false and misleading Media Releases like the one below. Stop past and future unnecessary harassment of taxi drivers in order to divert attention from the corruption and incompetence within the government and bureaucracy. During the “expensive” meeting with the Director General and his entourage they failed to present any solution or way forward based on any yardstick or management tools! No one told us what is the demand of taxis and therefore how many taxis will be required to match any and all demand in the first place! Furthermore, much anecdotal evidence exists which indicates that there is a lower demand for taxis in Sydney now. Most of the taxi ranks are overflowing at any time and day of the week. Even the KPI (Key Performance Indicators) of the T&I is saying that 35% of the time taxis are not on the road or utlised.
7. Re-establish the Taxi Advisory Council and Taxi Drivers' Safety Task Force as per the principles laid down by Justice Edwards and Beattie as well as Sir Asher Joel’s recommendations. Please ensure proper representation in those bodies. Last time, Peers Ackerman, Miranda Devine and many other people pressured to re-establish the Taxi Advisory Committee. Alas! The taxi mafia and the NSW TWU leadership sabotaged the good work and as a result now we are back to square one.
8. Allow and nurture the Taxi Advisory Council and Taxi Drivers' Safety Task Force without them being infiltrated by taxi mafia, stooges and Labor Party thugs.
9. Have a Taxi Royal Commission with widest possible Terms of Reference.
Further to Members of Parliament and media outlets, Beyond the NSW Taxi Royal Commission, An Open Letter to NSW Premier Nathan Rees, Taxi Washer to Taxi Mafia and Mafia Game and Beyond; taxi plates are the property of the State and public. Taxi plates must be used for the benefit of the State and the public.
The Safety and comfort of the public and drivers ought to be the top priority of the taxi industry. No one should be kowtowing to the taxi mafia because the taxi industry is a service industry and totally different from a casino or the stock exchange.
Therefore we must ignore all rumors and direct our good work based on facts and logic.
No one has to serve the taxi mafia! However successive Ministers of Transports, Premiers and public servants of the state of NSW are doing so for a long time! Information contained in Power of the Taxi Mafia is sufficient enough to make such a supposition.
We also must not allow any taxi driver bashing to divert attention from the real issue i.e. mafia corruption and public officials’ crime spree. A few ill motivated and deliberate articles of the daily telegraph, recent taxi driver basing by Channel Seven and Transport and Infrastructure officials misadventures against taxi drivers must be noted with extreme care.
Further to Members of Parliament and media outlets, Beyond the NSW Taxi Royal Commission, An Open Letter to NSW Premier Nathan Rees, The Power of the Taxi Mafia and Taxi Washer to Taxi Mafia the director General of Transport and Infrastructure invited people at meetings without agenda!
It appears they are not frank and honest enough in their intent. Nonetheless they also do not want to improve the industry. Furthermore they want to reward the taxi mafia by releasing many more taxi plates which is detrimental to public, taxi drivers and taxi owners’ interest. It is also clear that they do not have any yardstick to measure the demand and therefore an attempt to match the demand with proper supply. All in all it is fairly clear that the taxi mafia remains in charge.
The attitude, intention and overall direction of the Ministry and the Department of Transport and Infrastructure are very uncertain if not anti-public.
The democratic and long overdue Taxi Advisory Committee and Taxi Drivers’ Safety Committee is also outside the consideration of the Ministry of Transport.
Beyond Taxi Corruption provides a further look on how they have been committing crimes since 1984 with the assistance of the corrupt leaders of the NSW Transport Workers Union and many other public officials within the NSW Government.
The Power of the Taxi Mafia is beyond anyone’s imagination! A little taxi washer became taxi mafia and now he is the bus mafia!! It is beggar’s belief no one virtually can drive a private bus in this state without his (actually his mate’s) permission!!! He never had any interest in the bus industry. However, a few years ago the government of NSW gave one of his companies a very lucrative deal to construct buses. Most of these buses are not in a very good condition and full of problems. Yet, the mafia and his Cabcharge are making lots of money contrary to the state and public interest.
Taxi Washer to Taxi Mafia
Taxi mafia used to wash taxis at Bayswater Road, Kings Cross. Taxi drivers wanted to sack him because he was not washing taxis properly. But, the mafia survived due to racism and sectarianism. However, he became owner of two taxis and a few more earthly possessions by shagging a widow. Eventually, he became the taxi mafia by adding misery and misfortune on taxi drivers, owners and passengers. Ironically, successive NSW Premiers and Ministers of Transport started to lick his balls and they threw bag full of money at him. As a result, he gained the power to sue any one, silence anyone and even destroy someone!
What a mighty man the taxi mafia is?! One must wonder what happened to other man and woman of the state of NSW?!!? Are they mouse and mice?
Taxi plates are the property of the State and public. Taxi plates must be used for the benefit of the State and the public.
The Safety and comfort of the public and drivers ought to be the top priority of the taxi industry. No one should be kowtowing to the taxi mafia because the taxi industry is a service industry and totally different from a casino or the stock exchange.
Like the old days, taxi plates should be issued to only working taxi drivers with a provision of temporary relief in case of death and disablement. In the recent past, the authorities started to hand over taxi plates to the taxi mafia and many people who should not have been allowed into the taxi industry in the first place! They also made it very difficult, if not impossible, to ensure accountability and transparency by keeping the taxi owners register secret.
The practice of handing over many types of taxi plates to a selective few appears to be a very corrupt process and contrary to public and state interest. Too many politically expedient “quick-fixes” have created a maze of convoluted structures, largely devoid of stakeholder participation. Silencing and sabotaging many reports and inquiries regarding this issue is blatant proof of the deception and fraud. Furthermore, suffocating and hoodwinking the public in its genuine efforts to win some accountability and transparency within the NSW Department of Transport, Ministry of Transport and other bodies were in the past and still are at the present very devious and intimidatory.
Time is right to come clean.
The NSW Government must:
1. Recall all Nexus Taxi Plates and other types of taxi plates given to taxi networks and companies.
2. Demand that taxi networks and companies holding "free" plates hand back the plates and the income generated by all Nexus Taxi Plates and other plates given to them by the government.
3. Open up the Taxi Register like Company Registers.
4. Issue taxi plates to working taxi drivers only. (Instead of empowering networks to intimidate taxi drivers the Government must empower taxi drivers & operators to pressure networks into providing the booking services that the traveling public wants and is entitled to).
5. Gradually remove speculative investors from owning taxi plates. Remember, they brought corruption rather than creativity.
6. Stop issuing false and misleading Media Releases like the one below. Stop past and future unnecessary harassment of taxi drivers in order to divert attention from the corruption and incompetence within the government and bureaucracy.
7. Re-establish the Taxi Advisory Council and Taxi Drivers' Safety Task Force as per the principles laid down by Justice Edwards and Beattie as well as Sir Asher Joel’s recommendation.
8. Allow and nurture the Taxi Advisory Council and Taxi Drivers' Safety Task Force without them being infiltrated by taxi mafia, stooges and Labor Party thugs.
9. Have a Taxi Royal Commission with widest possible Terms of Reference.
1. Recall all Nexus Taxi Plates and other types of taxi plates given to taxi networks and companies.
2. Demand that taxi networks and companies holding "free" plates hand back the plates and the income generated by all Nexus Taxi Plates and other plates given to them by the government.
3. Open up the Taxi Register like Company Registers.
4. Issue taxi plates to working taxi drivers only. (Instead of empowering networks to intimidate taxi drivers the Government must empower taxi drivers & operators to pressure networks into providing the booking services that the traveling public wants and is entitled to).
5. Gradually remove speculative investors from owning taxi plates. Remember, they brought corruption rather than creativity.
6. Stop issuing false and misleading Media Releases like the one below. Stop past and future unnecessary harassment of taxi drivers in order to divert attention from the corruption and incompetence within the government and bureaucracy.
7. Re-establish the Taxi Advisory Council and Taxi Drivers' Safety Task Force as per the principles laid down by Justice Edwards and Beattie as well as Sir Asher Joel’s recommendation.
8. Allow and nurture the Taxi Advisory Council and Taxi Drivers' Safety Task Force without them being infiltrated by taxi mafia, stooges and Labor Party thugs.
9. Have a Taxi Royal Commission with widest possible Terms of Reference.
Faruque Ahmed
Moderator, Sydney Taxi Corruption, Mobile: 041 091 4118
Monday, October 12, 2009
Pack of Australian Racists and Shiekh Haron have to be part of taxi industry debate.
Moderator, Sydney Taxi Corruption, Mobile: 041 091 4118
Monday, October 12, 2009
Pack of Australian Racists and Shiekh Haron have to be part of taxi industry debate.
