Taxi drivers

More and more tourists are seen here every day. We just had our breakfast in the teashop annex restaurant across from the airport and at one time there were 5! tour buses lined up (blocking the way for everybody by the look of it). The taxi rivers now think that it is open season to scam and overcharge for the next 2 months coming. Officially the taxis now have to use their taxi meters since the end of August. In the papers it was presented like this time the government meant business. The taxis had 1 month to repair their (often broken) meters form the last time the taxi meter scheme was supposed to start operating (over 2 years ago). But, unlike last time, the drivers don't even have the meter on. So apparently there is no control what so ever. Anyways, my frustration stems as usual from a taxi driver. First he wanted to charge us way too much. But eventually he settled for a reasonable price. We were heading to Ocean supermarket/shopping centre just down the road. The guy had no clue what he was doing and decided to drop us off across a very busy road instead of where we wanted to be. Then he wanted to make some sort of badly executed U-turn which he didn't manage and then let us out near the shopping centre on the correct side of the road but away from the entrance. He blocked the exit of the parking garage and the driver of a car that came out of there started to shout at him to move his vehicle. 'Our' driver started to shout back and even became slightly aggressive... I know there are good taxi drivers out there and even good ones in Yangon but here, everybody can become a taxi driver whether they can drive or not. They do not need to have any skills or even knowledge about the city. They only need to be able to make enough money to pay the owner of the taxi car (and often taxi license) 15,000 kyats ($20)per day for rent. We do get some seriously bad drivers, drivers who have no cue to even big places like the place we wanted to go to today, and who want to charge you double just because you're a westerner... Unfortunately owning a car costs a fortune here so that is not an option... I read the other day that 3 years ago there were a little over 10,000 taxis in Yangon. Now there are over 80,000. You would think that competition would have improved prices and service....