The ongoing attempts by the FIFA Local Organising Committee (LOC) CEO Danny Jordaan to reduce the taxi industry into a state of obsolescence thus discarding it from the 2010 transport planning activities are most definitely regrettable but will end up holding a critical pillar that may just as well determine the legacy South Africa will engrave to the world. The taxi industry is a major player in the transport sector in the country and it is irrational thinking to believe that any transport planning can be executed without its involvement, let alone being reduced to an insignificant role. The LOC’s Danny Jordaan must understand that the 2010 transport plan will operate within the daily routine of taxis and excluding it from planning means that taxis would have to cease their business for the duration of world showpiece – a loss no business will be prepared to incur. The eleventh hour inclusion of the taxi industry in the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) transportation service, which service taxis rendered with success following the shortfalls in the original plan, must be a mistake we should all learn from and never repeat. If the taxi industry could save the WSSD planning committee and consequently the country from embarrassment and participated in the World Cricket Cup transportation service, what convinces the LOC that it is unfit to advice and plan for 2010? Much as Danny Jordaan is entitled to his views which are unscientific, his total disregard and clear disinterest in meeting with the taxi industry to discuss taxi participation in 2010, misleads him into thinking that his wish will be granted. His recent remarks in one publication that he wishes to meet the taxi leadership was just a sentimental view that regrettably does not explain why he deliberately chose not to attend a meeting which SANTACO arranged in consultation with his office.