{"id":31251,"date":"2016-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/stephen-mullighan-says-competition-is-good-for-personal-transport-prices\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"stephen-mullighan-says-competition-is-good-for-personal-transport-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/stephen-mullighan-says-competition-is-good-for-personal-transport-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullighan says competition is good for personal transport prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Leon Byner asks Transport Minister Stephen Mullighan why it is that taxi fares are about to rise as plans are put in place to legalise ride-sharing services like UberX.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWhere else in the world do you introduce more competition and the price then goes up?\u201d Leon asked on FIVEAA. \u201cFares will go up a dollar in cabs and 20 per cent loading for Friday and Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Mullighan said he expected to see more competitive prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew entrants and also other operators like people who are in the chauffeur vehicle industry will be setting their own fares,\u201d he told Leon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the experience interstate is under these sorts of conditions we do see new entrants, we do see more competitive prices offered and we do see more choice for passengers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not to say that all prices will rise and regardless of what platform you\u2019re taking in the future you will be paying more than what you were paying previously in a taxi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be competition and there will be different pricing among different providers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO STEPHEN MULLIGHAN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/258720403&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/jay-weatherill-on-how-to-fix-the-carnage-on-adelaide-roads\">PREMIER ON HOW TO FIX THE CARNAGE ON ADELAIDE ROADS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/richmond-the-biggest-joke-in-afl-says-graham-cornes\">YOU\u2019RE THE BIGGEST JOKE IN THE AFL, SAYS CORNESY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Byner asks Transport Minister Stephen Mullighan why it is that taxi fares are about to rise as plans are put in place to legalise ride-sharing services like UberX. \u201cWhere else in the world do you introduce more competition and the price then goes up?\u201d Leon asked on FIVEAA. \u201cFares will go up a dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-31251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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