{"id":7193,"date":"2011-10-09T00:26:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2011\/10\/taxi-driver-want-easy-access-to-permits\/"},"modified":"2011-10-09T00:26:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T16:26:14","slug":"taxi-driver-want-easy-access-to-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/taxi-driver-want-easy-access-to-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi driver want easy access to permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-6yOzqAgkd5o\/TpDtILXnuEI\/AAAAAAAAHL8\/xCpZnaudq9k\/s300\/P1010022.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" style=\"float: right;\" \/>PETALING JAYA: Taxi drivers have voiced mixed reactions to the goodies promised to them in Budget 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Cabbie <span class=\"knx-annotation\">Md Salim Salehin<\/span>, 47,   welcomed the assistance for those who owned their taxis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shows the Prime Minister cares about us,\u201d said Md Salim, who has been driving his own taxi for the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Salim, however, urged the Government to make it easier for cabbies to get individual taxi permits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt  was really hard previously. I had to work at least 12 hours a day to  make about RM60 and I had to pay that much in taxi rental per day,\u201d he  said, recalling his 11 years as a taxi driver after retiring from  military service.<\/p>\n<p>Ranjeet Singh, 48, urged the Government to help  taxi drivers who were blacklisted by banks and were unable to purchase  their own cabs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost taxi drivers are blacklisted because they  have to take loans to support themselves. Guarantors of bad debts should  be allowed to clear their name,\u201d said Ranjeet.<\/p>\n<p>Among the  Government&#8217;s proposals announced on Friday was the abolition of road tax  for individually owned budget taxis and an interest rate subsidy of 2%  on full loans to purchase new locally made taxis.<\/p>\n<p>The excise duty and sales tax would also be waived for the purchase of locally made cabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETALING JAYA: Taxi drivers have voiced mixed reactions to the goodies promised to them in Budget 2012. Cabbie Md Salim Salehin, 47, welcomed the assistance for those who owned their taxis. \u201cThis shows the Prime Minister cares about us,\u201d said Md Salim, who has been driving his own taxi for the past year. Salim, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}