NEW SOUTH WALES
NEWS
BOOKINGS BATHURST TAXIS Amidst this challenging period of navigating through the crisis caused by a global pandemic, Bathurst Taxis (aka Bx Taxis) has reached its 4 millionth booking through their innovative techbased Taxi dispatch platform – SmartMove. Ms Teegan Hill, a Bathurst local, was the 4 millionth customer to make a booking with Bx Taxis and was the lucky recipient of a $400 Cabcharge gift voucher.
trips would be equivalent to 20 million kilometres in Taxi travel. This equates to travelling to the moon and back 26 times. Bx Taxis is a Co-operative run by its 21 members, which aims to provide quality, reliable and safe Taxi services 24/7, considering the needs of each
passenger, in safe, clean and comfortable vehicles with welltrained and courteous drivers in Bathurst. Hon Paul Toole MP said, "Taxis are an absolutely essential service in Regional and Rural NSW and are the only form of public transport service available to the people in some towns to move around for essential purposes. 4 million customers is a huge achievement by Bx Taxis."
To be able to achieve 4 million bookings utilising a techbased Taxi dispatch system used in Bathurst, for a regional NSW town with a population of 40,000, is a fantastic outcome. Considering that an average Bathurst Taxi trip is around five kms, four million
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DRIVE A2B magazine · www.drivea2b.com.au · August 2020
