Taxi driver

A taxi driver would not let a visitor who had just broken his leg get in his cab due to the fact he was 'wet', and instead would only carry him in the trunk ...

“We have to have a conversation about the night time economy... Honest conversations we must now all come to the table – the transportation issue in this country. When we talk about blame that is not going to get us any further.” “This man (the tourist) is reeling in pain. “He takes the tourist, and two workers take him, he opens the trunk... The taxi driver says ‘this is my bread and butter, I cannot put him wet in my taxi’. “I will not decry the minister of tourism, the minister of transport, but we have to fix the bus schedule on the South Shore. “Ask the restaurateur, as the hotelier, what is the thing they want to see most in Bermuda? “I give that example to say that we have to have an honest conversation. “What we can say is that there is a requirement by law for taxis to be on the road for a specific amount of hours, now they must be held to account for that.” “They lamented that it was difficult, if not impossible, to get transport from the airport to go to the hotel, to come back from the hotel, to go to events, to go to diner and to come home. “I have brothers in the PLP that are taxi drivers, you will never be able to tell your grandchildren that I spoke negatively about taxi drivers, taxi owners, taxi operators.