Since March of 2020, taxi and Maxi Cab services across Sydney Region have been struggling. With the on-going COVID-19 pandemic and the province in its second lockdown, cab drivers are not seeing their usual ridership as rider’s habits have changed. “There isn’t the shopping trips or the visiting going on, you can tell it’s slowed…
FARES AND CHARGES Transport for NSW sets the maximum fares for rank and hail taxi services that operate in NSW. A new taxi fares order came into effect on 1 November 2017, coinciding with the commencement of the new regulatory framework for the point to point transport industry. It is important to note that…
From Friday 4 December 2020, amendments to the Point to Point Transport (Taxis and Hire Vehicles) Regulation 2017 will come into effect. The amendments update provisions in the point to point transport legislation dealing with disqualifying offences and other safety-related matters and implement a recommendation of the Point to Point Taskforce Report (2015) concerning former taxi licence conditions….
Covid: One-way ‘travel bubble’ opens between Australia and NZ The first passengers from New Zealand have arrived in Australia under the new “travel bubble” arrangements between the two countries. None of the passengers on the flight from Auckland to Sydney will be required to quarantine in Australia. However, they will have to pay for their…
