Taxi fare Increase

50 for every 300 metres or around 11 per kilometre.

In addition, taxi drivers can now calculate a journey speed of 2 per second to replace the P3.50 wait fee for every 2mins. LTFRB began recalibrating taxi counters at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Parañaque City on Tuesday 31 July.

In the Metro Manila there are about 21,000 cabs. Taxi cabs with re-calibrated counters can only demand higher tariffs. The taximeter calibrator certificate label is affixed to the top right of the windscreen to show that the operator can use the new tariff system. A P1.110 recharge is levied for the calibration, which includes the seal of counters, inspection and administration.

The LTFRB chairman, Martin Delgra III Delgra, alerted riders and owners not to demand higher fares without authorisation stickers. As Delgra stated, the P2 minutes trip fee was added to meet the amount of travelling hours used. LTFRB has long been asked by taxi owners to adapt their tariff competitions following the publication of ride-hauling applications such as Grab Philippines.

"Needless to say, our company is on full pay to service our customers. Ayun Naman and Marga Agal ng taxi Driver or taxi Operator na Dail Sa Transport Metro Manila, Marulugi Sila," he said in a earlier press brief.

On the rise for domestic disconnection

It is one of many South Africans who feel the squeeze after the recent rise in gasoline prices. They now pay up to 44 R per person per night for taxi-prices. Vicente Madlopha, who resides in Pelham, Pietermaritzburg, Germany, is spending the entire working day of the R820 there. Said he'd stopped sending cash to his Mum in Mpumalanga because of high taxi surcharges.

"Many South Africans are only working to meet essential needs, a tendency reinforced by the South African Apartheid regime to repress the population," Mbele said.