In Reply to: Honest Taxi Drivers posted by Badak Sinting on Saturday, 7. February 2009 at 09:27 Bali Time:
- along, which was a real shock to the system, being an old believer in nothing but Blue Birds with 'Taxi' on the roof light, never 'Taksi'.
I have to say that I just couldn't resist asking every time, 'Do you have a meter?', 'Is it working?', and on every occasion the answers were, 'Yes' and 'Yes'.
One driver of a Ngurah Rai cab insisted on showing me the government tag attached to the meter indicating that it had been checked and was running at the approved rate!!!!
He was a talkative bloke, more so than usual, and told me that Ngurah Rai was the only company that was Balinese owned and that my beloved Blue Bird was a Chinese company and that they planned to put 500 more cabs on Bali streets in March this year. Talk about flooding the market - and the streets.
How much of this is really true I don't know of course and I'd be interested to read of other's knowledge.