Thais overwhelmingly support Uber, GrabTaxi: survey
More than 70 per cent of respondents in a survey expressed support for the ride-sharing Uber and GrabTaxi apps, saying they could be alternatives that would prompt normal taxis to improve their services.
The survey was carried out by Bangkok University among 1,193 people in Bangkok and its suburbs and the results were announced on Wednesday.
The Bangkok Poll pollster announced that 75.1 per cent of respondents supported Uber and GrabTaxi services while 24.9 per cent said they did not support the apps.
But the pollster found that 75.9 per cent of the respondents said they had not used the ride-sharing apps while 24.1 per cent said they had.
Asked to name problems related to taxi services (each respondent could name more than one issue), 85.5 per cent said taxi drivers often rejected passengers, 42.4 per cent said taxi drivers intentionally increase fares by taking longer routes, and 35. 2 per cent said drivers were very impolite.
