Orange in the City: Parking Orange and Orange Taxi

The past week was a week of “orange things” for us.

First, we got curious about the “Parking Orange” sign in Abreeza Mall. Through the help of readers who left comments, we found that the mall’s parking areas were actually color-coded. Geez, we have been to Abreeza hundreds of times and we never really noticed the color scheme! So, on our next visit, we were more observant and finally saw the different colors of the parking area. 🙂



Another new “orange thing” in Davao is the Orange Cab, or Orange Taxi as referred to by many of our friends. Just yesterday, while we were looking out for an Orange taxi on the road, one actually “posed” right in front of our car.

With the Yellow Taxi, Blue Taxi, Violet Taxi and now Orange Taxi on the roads of Davao City, I wonder what taxi color will emerge next. This makes riding a taxi more fun in Davao!

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11 comments

  1. The next taxi color will be black, white, purple, pink, brown? red, etc? or maybe a rainbow taxi… hehehehe ^_^

  2. Hmmm, in tune with the color of the year: Tangerine Tango! =)

  3. Wow this is cool.. I wonder when I’ll be able to ride one of these, now that I’ve temporarily relocated away from Davao… Oh..

  4. the next color will be a black taxi. I’ve got inside info. hehe

  5. hi.i wanna raise a complaint regarding a taxi driver of your company.I was thinking of just letting this pass but he was EXTREMELY RUDE!! the taxi plate number is LXC 298. Nangyari po ngayong hapon lng. Galing ako ng Ilustre, since it’s raining real hard, I decided to take a cab. I was heading victoria plaza mall, so when we were in Torres St., since malapit nlng ung landco at parang humina na ang ulan, I suggested na “kuya sa landco nlng ako”, I was hoping na walang traffic and I could just walk my way to victoria plaza. Now nung nasa landco na kami, biglang lumakas ulit ung ulan. So I asked him NICELY if pwde ba na magpadiretso nlng ako sa victoria since umuulan na naman. Now the driver of the said Orange cab (LXC 298) started to mumble things as if it’s too hard for him to do my request. I do not have any problems kung sabihin nyang AYAW NYA!!ANG PROBLEMA, PINAGDABOGAN AKO NG L*CHENG DRIVER WHEN IN FACT I TRIED MY BEST TO ASK HIM! So i said “kuya ngano mura kag suko?diri nalang ko”. and he said “AYAW KO HIMUAG T*NGA MAM! BISAN PAG MUBAYAD KAG SAKTO ALKANSI GHAPON KO KAI MULIKO KOG LAYO! WA MAN GUD KAI KLARO! MAG BAG-O BAG-O IMONG HUNA2X”. I honestly felt DISRESPECTED BY A DRIVER WHEN I KNOW IM IN THE PLACE TO REQUEST. And i’ll definitely understand kung hindi na nya ako mahahatid..I won’t continue what happened to the rest of the story, because that f#$^^&&* driver made me feel like MAKAPAL ANG MUKHA KONG MAG REQUEST EH SA MAGBABAYAD NAMAN !!!! AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, TEACH THAT DRIVER TO HAVE SOME MANNERS, HINDI PORKE’T SUMASAKAY LANG KAMI SA TAXI NYO EH PWDE NYO NA KAMING BASTUSIN. RIDICULOUS !! this happened today, 28th of June. DISAPPOINTING!

  6. Hi i just want to share my experience wth ds orange taxi ,the driver was so rude…i was on my way to g-mall wth my sister.sa pagsakay pa lng okay,i said’kuya pwede paspasan gamay.so he just drive & drive till we get to gmall.pagbayad namo..
    “Kuya bayad oh”
    Driver- walay gamay ana!!! Pabalang na pinasuko nstorya
    Driver-nagsulti unta mo daan na 500 inyong kwarta”high pitch kaau ang driver
    Me- kay nasuko nko kay una palang taas na kaau sha boses na pnasuko,ana ko”ngano kailangan mi mo ingon pila among kwarta bg o msakay sa imo.hapon na sharo wla pka change
    Driver- sabay kuha sa iyang halin sa bulsa & pakita sa amo na O TAN AWA naa bay kambyo.suko kaau sya pag ingon
    Me- ngano masuko mn ka.so sala namo ni kron!
    Sabay tindog sya gawas pnasuko.
    Me”gawas pd ko and said dli ta nuon ka bayran.bastos kaau kag behavior ha dli ka pwede mahimong taxi driver..ka au au sa among pag sakay comfortable mi,sa dihang pag baba namo g ana mi nmo pag tagad..bastos kaau wlay manners. Mao ni iyang plate number & pangalan.LXC 298 BUCOD CARMILO G. Kailangan ni sya lesson na driver.kulang respeto.dapat patagamon!

  7. Happened 28 of sept.

  8. hala! Im just wondering lang.. kamukha ko yata yang babae na nakuhaan sa picture sa likod ng orange cab.. ako ba yan? hmmm mukha nga. hehhe

  9. daisy joy deligero

    hello good morning i left my bag in a an orange taxi what should i do to get it back?

  10. ANu contact number ng orange taxi sa davao? Pa help po kasi mau naiwan kami na gamit pero diko matandaan anu namr ng taxi basta orange ung color. Salamat!

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