Auto rickshaw and taxicab drivers are demanding excessive fares from passengers during the Eid holiday. Drivers argue that due to a rise in daily deposits and an unwillingness of police and owners, they have to charge extra fares from commuters. Mohammad Anisul Haque, a traveller who reached Kamlapur railway station in Dhaka from
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Meter means nothing
CNG-run vehicles violating all rules Hop on an auto-rickshaw, tell the driver where you want to go in the capital, go there and pay him what the meter says. This was probably the original idea behind installing meters in every CNG-run auto rickshaw in the capital. The authorities had presented city dwellers with a rosy ... Read more
Drivers ignore meter compliance
Commuters in the capital city had to pay exorbitant fares on Sunday, the first of the new arrangement, as the drivers of CNG-run auto-rickshaws, barring a few exceptions, continued to charged more and refused to go by the meter. Auto-rickshaw drivers charged fares in excess, often several times more that the newly fixed