This post is likely to be beneficial to those of you planning to take a "rick" in Chennai.
All of us know how bad this mode of transport is, w.r.t the cost involved. Nobody uses the meter (nothing wrong if u really analyse deeply). So its basically down to haggling the rates.
When auto drivers see milk oozing faces like mine, they generally tend to jack up the rates a bit more. And since I don't bargain that well, I usually end up paying a lot more than others.
Usually, whenever I take the 7.30 bus from work, I get dropped at Adyar. I used to catch an auto back home and it was always a flat 30 bucks. All drivers have uniformly asked only that rate and so I assumed that's regular.
So, I even stopped taking the rick and started using the MTC regularly. But last week or so, I had a bad bus trip (since I boarded the bus late, I had to sit in the last row between two heavy-weights) and so when I got down, I walked up to an auto standing near the stop. Asked the guy his rate and he said 25. I was happy and took the auto.
Something that I'd noticed was this guy had a TN-07 registration. Last evening also, I wanted to take an auto and this time too saw a parked auto with a 07 registration. Asked the guy the rate and he too said 25.
So net-net, whenever you want to take an auto to some place - especially at night - try to catch hold of a guy whose auto is registered in the RTO closer to your destination!!!
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This might not be the case every where. I have paid heavily shunting between IIT and Thiruvanmiyur, 70 bucks every time irrespective of the RTO. Think mine is also a milk oozing face....isn't that true jawaman.
Mr.Ez,
In ur case it can at best be a beer oozing face man...
Mere 20 days in a month can very well be Rs600 per mensem. If you take out a Hire Purchase agreement you'll end up paying around Rs 1000 a month for a new Autorickshaw, which will also fetch you revenue, and will generate employment (auto-driver) and do social good (killing pedestrians - reducing population). Best of all, if you put a sticker that reads "Free Rides for gorgeous girls" you'll get a great database, which you can use to further your "other" interests.
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