Chiang Rai Taxi

[dindong]

New taxis with meters in Chiang Rai.

[CP3]

They better be at CR Airport. Sick of those airport taxi

[toybits]

Cool! Now if they city government could just think of having public buses so students would not need to take their motorcycles to school. Would also mean less cars on the road. The public buses could be air-conditioned even. That would make me really happy.

[dindong]

As an update.

To book a taxi call 053-773-477 or 081-998-8918.

Chiangrai Times – For the first time, visitors and residents can enjoy the luxury of flagging down a meter-taxi here in this northern-most town in Thailand.

The new service started last week using brand new Toyota ‘s that can be flagged down for trips within the city or booked for trips throughout the province.

Chiang Rai often billed as the “City of Artists is also the gateway province to the Mekong Region.”

It shares river borders with Myanmar and Laos, while a bridge linking the province to a highway that links Laos and Yunnan province in China is due to open next year.

The fleet of 25 yellow-and navy blue meter-taxi were on the streets last week to the surprise of both visitors and residents.

According to the taxi service manager, Mr Songkran, who is based at an office next to the new Inter-province Bus Terminal 2, another 25 cars will join the fleet giving the city 50 brand new Toyota Corolla taxis.

In the city, flag down is Bt30 for the first 2 km and Bt2 for every additional km. The rate for out of town destinations is Bt10 per km.

For example, a trip to the Myanmar border at Mae Sai, or the Golden Triangle at Chiang Saen, would cost about Bt600.

A transfer to the airport would cost Bt120 (within the city limits) but an additional Bt20 fee is charged for pick-up at a residence, hotel in response to a telephone booking. To book a taxi call 053-773-477 or 081-998-8918.

Visitors to Chiang Rai in the past had to rely on local buses and the so-called tuk tuk or song taew (converted pick-up trucks).

Tourism executives and hotels welcomed the service calling it a “real boon for Chiang Rai” that will add value to the holiday experience and help to promote tourism and raise Chiang Rai’s profile. – Jaffee Yee

http://www.chiangraitimes.com/news/8242.html

Edited July 10, 2012 by dindong

[craigt3365]

Best of luck with this guys! Hopefully, this will start spreading to other parts of Thailand!!

[oysters]

I wonder how the tuk tuk boys have taken the news?

Chiang hai is growing up fast!

[dindong]

Havn't got all the details but there was a protest by the TUK Tuk drivers and they blocked of the road in front of the night bazaar last week. It looks like the taxis are here to stay.

Must be someone with influence thats behind it.

Move over Tuk tuk scammers.

[Paul888]

........Move over Tuk tuk scammers.

Welcome Taxi scammers.

[skybluestu]

........Move over Tuk tuk scammers.

Welcome Taxi scammers.

IF they use the meter like they should then it would be quite difficult to scam anyone, maybe they could take a longer route for people who don't live here but apart from that there isn't much they could do.

[cypry0]

Showing my age now, I remember when tuk tuks first arrived in town must have been 1990. There were lots of unhappy samlor owners. I guess what goes around comes around.

[Big Gary]

Showing my age now, I remember when tuk tuks first arrived in town must have been 1990. There were lots of unhappy samlor owners. I guess what goes around comes around.

I can remember that as all the Tuk Tuks were at the big Servo on right on Old Chiangmai Rd before you get to Little Duck and all the Samlors Riders were protesting out the front.

[dindong]

The taxis will be out in force in 50 years when this comes along

robot taxis

if you aren’t a fan of rude taxi drivers with blaring radios, then the robot taxi may come as a relief. this taxi

concept by designer petr kubik does away with the driver all together, replacing them with a computer

operated vehicle. the robot taxis can seat two passengers with hand luggage and are ideally suited for large

cities filled with congestion. to use them, kubik suggests, a rider would call the operator, who would

dispatch a taxi to their location. once inside, the rider would enter their destination into the on-board

computer and voila. kubik believes that his design could travel at speeds up to 90 km/h and run for 20

hours using two electric motors.

http://www.kubikdesign.cz

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