A total of seven drivers were on Thursday (Oct 8) caught for providing illegal cross-border taxi services at Singapore’s land checkpoints.<\/p>\n
The operation was mounted acting on regular tip-offs from the National Private Hire Vehicle Association and the National Taxi Association, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in a Facebook post the same evening.<\/p>\n
According to Senior Minister of State for Transport Sun Xueling, a total of 5,400 vehicles have now been checked since July last year, with 254 vehicles impounded.<\/p>\n
“We remain committed to taking firm enforcement actions against illegal cross-border service providers as such services undermine passenger safety and affect the livelihoods of our local point-to-point transport drivers,” the senior minister of state wrote in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, LTA reminded providers of such illegal services that those caught could face fines of up to $3,000, jail of up to six months, or both.<\/p>\n
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Vehicles used could also be forfeited, the authority added.<\/p>\n
Members of the public are reminded to book only licensed cross-border ride-hailing services such as Grab<\/a>, or have a Singapore-registered cross-border taxi service<\/a> to pick them up anywhere in Singapore, for drop-off anywhere in Johor Bahru, Iskandar Puteri, Forest City, Kulai and Senai.<\/p>\n [[nid:746695]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A total of seven drivers were on Thursday (Oct 8) caught for providing illegal cross-border taxi services at Singapore’s land checkpoints. The operation was mounted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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