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VICTORIA
FAIR PRICE
NEWS

INCREASE ON

TAXI

FARES

Rod Barton MLC
Leader, Transport Matters Party

It's been a long time since the taxi industry
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saw any increase in the maximum regulated
fare rates and I think a pay rise is long Drivers across the board,
overdue.
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including ride share, are
Our taxi fares are prescribed by the reporting hourly rates of
Essential Services Commission, but have less than $10 an hour.
been lying stagnant for the past five years,
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increasing only to incorporate increased
charges on tolls, airport ground fees and the
$1 trip levy imposed to fund
industry compensation
following deregulation in
August 2017. None of this
ends up in the pockets of
drivers.

When rideshare services
arrived in Australia
everything changed.
Rideshare has created
a market for cheap and
unsafe rides and now,
two years on, everyone is
suffering.

24 DRIVE A2B magazine · October 2019