The 1$ surcharge will be automatically added on flag pull meter entry rate or we push the extra button on meter like we do when we have additional passenger?
If it is 1$ additonal charge from extra button, this will only confuse the customers cos we already have extras when we have additional passengers and this will lead to massive false complaints to DCS and argument with the drivers and I won't do this rather will try to quit the job.
its not gonna work!
It will be as extras like when you have an additional passenger.
It will be confusing. Maybe the city will get so many complaints that they will wake up and give us a fare increase.
all drivers should make sign to say I refuse to collect 1$ surcharge because it is unfair to drivers we need meter increase
because we already have additional charge for extra passengers, the surcharge of $ 1 will only confuse passengers which will lead to many compliants with the department of consumers service and argument by passengers for seeing many extras.
drivers may get license suspensions and fines as a result of those confusing surcharge and the false compliant from this!
Surcharge is bad for drivers.
right now, too many passengers don't know the law about paying extra for additional passengers, with this surcharge, they will be more confused and will argue with drivers and file false complaint with DCS.
The only solution is either a permanent fare increase or add $ 1 or 2$ to the meter flag pull entry rate, which is like $3.25, instead of current $ 2.25
I won't comply with this cos I don't want argument and fight with riders with this 1$ surcharge.
To those drivers who feel ok with this surcharge, wait until you get false complaint and argument with riders when you add 1$ surcharge.
we need parmenent meter increase or increase in flag pull meter entry rate!
Boycott the Surcharge!
The surcharge is ridiculous. It's a slap in our collective face. It defies common sense.
It was supposed to be last year's TEMPORARY fix until we could work out a realistic "fair fare, fair share" meter increase.
Historically the meter increases have been around 12% to 15% -- a reasonable amount that spreads the increase appropriately to short and long riders.
The surcharge was proposed in Spring of 2007 was a graded surcharge based on meter fare amount at destination to counter the rising fuel costs and was summarily dismissed by the Allen & his Transportation Committee.
Talk about ignoring reality! The honorable Alderman Allen said that the rising fuel costs were just a temporary spike, which is the exact opposite of what ALL the oil industry analysts and the Federal Government's own Energy and Financial analysts were reporting and predicting, then and now.
Then there was a driver walk-out (the so-called "strike"), a signed petition and more hearings for a meter increase.
Again, the City said screw the drivers, you get nothing!
Now they take the old surcharge proposal and mix it up with a plan from Seattle and present us with this Voodoo Surcharge based on Voodoo methodology.
They just had to go to "outsiders" and spend over a year "studying" it to put together a surcharge, which as many now believe, will prove to be more destructive than helpful.
You want to expose a scam, George?
Perhaps we could start with a DEMAND that the City provide the studies and reports they allegedly reviewed, which purportedly support or tend to support the City's decision to "grant" this way-too-late surcharge instead of a reasonable and rational 12% to 18% meter increase.
Expose a scam and call a liar a liar -- even if it;s the Mayor, the Commissioner or a bunch Aldermanic maniacs or the entire Silly Council.
My bet is that they didn't review anything and that makes them big, fat, oh you know, those sly old politicians....
By the way, the very first dollar collected under the surcharge will have already gone directly to the City for the cost of the required sign.
My surcharge sign will read "I REFUSE TO COLLECT THE SURCHARGE BECAUSE IT IS UNFAIR TO RIDERS & DRIVERS!"
I hope you will all join me in this boycott of the Surcharge.
Wolfgang J. Weiss
Boycott the surcharge? That's smart. You can also walk past a $10 bill on the ground and not pick it up.
Well, if you can't tell the difference between a ten dollar bill and dog do-do, then maybe you shouldn't be walking around without adult supervision in the first place.
wjw
