KUALA LUMPUR: Taxi drivers will not comply with the Cabinet's decision to postpone the new taxi fare rates.
Metered Taxi Drivers Task Force chairman Amran Jan said its members have already calibrated their meters to the new fares and will not make any changes until an official directive from the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) is received.
"We do not want to politicise the issue. We are concern over the high cost of living and taxi drivers are also locals who are affected by the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST)," he told a press conference on Sunday.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on Saturday said the Government understood the basis for hikes in public transport fares but now was not the time to implement it.
He said the Cabinet had directed SPAD to defer the hikes.
