Interview

The interviewee is Chung Der Sheng, who is 57 years old who is a local taxi driver. He is currently living with his family, he has 2 sons. Interview was conducted through email because the time difficulties of meeting each other.

(Chung Der Sheng. Email interview. 2 March 2014.)

Chung Der Sheng is 57 years old, which is a Singaporean. He is working as a taxi driver since 2000, which is already 14 years he has been working as taxi driver in total.  He lives in Singapore with a wife and two sons.

He is considered as a vehicles user, since he work as a taxi driver, and he use car as it is a part of their job needs. He stated that he has no other alternative jobs or he has no other available jobs when he reached the age of 50 or 55. Although working as a taxi driver is a long hours work, but he stated that

there is a freedom working as a taxi driver, over all he feel quite ok with his job. But sometimes he also faced a passenger which is not nice or even rude. In his opinion, passengers is bad or rude when us as taxi drivers take routes that actually they do not prefer, then they think they have all the right.

According to him, he ever feel trapped in a traffic, bus lanes are of no benefit to taxi drivers, hinders taxi drivers from getting more passenger and restricting traffic low, he said. Based on his point of view, there are some areas that usually have the most traffic, CTE or highways like AYE, usually around morning and evening peak hours. Although like what has been stated before that he feels quite ok with his job, but actually he also feel the disadvantages from being a taxi driver, like if the passengers are grumble when stuck in traffic, they don’t understand the situation, and the possible to earned money is less during the slow traffic.

Chung Der Sheng said, the caused of too many vehicles are mostly cause by all the other vehicles come out at the same time during to work or off work hours and slight accidents on roads also cause a big jam. and to him, government should cut down on vehicles(such as people that own two cars) or set a quota on maximum vehicles limits.