Pay more if you want to ride in comfort

The Newpaper, July 4th

The prices for comfort cabs have gone up again, now the fare is $2.50 instead of the usual $2.40. I myself do not take cabs as i am lucky enough to have my parents drive me around, so the rise in fare price does not really affect me. However, i am against the increase in price of cabs as i feel that though it is just a 10cents increase, the difference is enough for people who use the taxi as a regular means of transport to feel the pinch. There are a number of low-income people who are handicapped and use taxis to travel to and fro between their home and the hospitals for their daily check-up, and the usual fare already burns a hole in their pocket. And now with the further increase in price of taxi fares, this is sure to cause more troubles and worries for them as they will be heavily affected. I feel that comfort should stop increasing the price of their taxi fares as i feel that many people will feel the pinch in the new price and be deterred from taking cabs. Afterall there are other forms of public transports, if forced to, commuters will definitely choose to use the public transport that is most friendly to their wallets, and then the number of taxi users will go down.