Not usual for Vocational training centers sector Take to the streets to protest. The car rental association has engaged drivers in some slow, timid walks, and on one occasion, in February 2023, the veteran companies They organized their own funeral With a funeral march in Plaza España. This Wednesday, Capify He took the art of protest a step further.performance‘ In the Sants stationspecifically, on the slab that separates the train station from Catalan Square de los Paisos. They put some 200 bags (in your company color) Where the following message can be read: “Arrival by high-speed train and Having to wait to leave Saints. “The regulations do not allow us to provide you with the service you deserve.”
Urban Police, minutes before removing bags from Plaza de Paisos Catalana, in front of Sants station, this Wednesday / Jordi Otics
The main topic is conflict Platforms exploiting VTC licenses have been in operation for approximately 10 years (Uber, Capify or Bolt) with the taxi industry, Which during this time also witnessed the emergence of an association, Elite taxi, especially against this competition which they consider 100% unfair. Moreover, the filling coincides with Taxi law reform Approved in 2003, it is a text that, when approved in Parliament, if it happens, will become law for the transport of people in vehicles with a capacity of up to nine seats.
This list has remained in place until now BorWaiting for the new government to take over and finish it. The idea, or so District Departmentis that taxi drivers, VTCs, classic VTCs (called major tourism and specializing in exclusive services) and brokerage companies (such as Free Now)
Decrees and laws
Until that happens, Cabify is requesting that a moratorium be approved, so that all licenses “It is based in Catalonia can perform Urban services“.Los Current decrees (State and Regional) Guillotine trips made within a single municipality specifically to avoid being hit by a taxi. Barcelona and the other 35 cities in the Barcelona metropolitan area form a single entity that concentrates 95% of the businesses on this side of the Ebro River. But in the current situation, it can only work in Around the Catalan capital between 1000 and 1500 VTC. In fact, many of them can work thanks to A The moratorium on a government decree has been ongoing since the end of 2018But all this year they must lose their urban qualifications.
Javier Dorado, Cabify’s Director of Public Affairs, summed up the company’s situation in Sants. He warned of the “apparent lack of VTC and taxi services in Barcelona”, A shortage that “residents and tourists alike” suffer from. He pointed out that in the city, “the number of taxis is less than it was 40 years ago.” As of today, AMB has 10,521 taxi licenses in operation. In the 1980s there were just over 11,000.
The company’s president explained that the platform It cannot handle 30% of the required tripsHe confirmed that the percentage sometimes rises to 50%. he is too Waiting time Superior car in the Catalan capital Imbalance between supply and demand. He stated that it is 20% more than other capitals.
Use data
In addition to requesting a moratorium until the law completes the entire negotiating and parliamentary process, Dorado requested that the regulations be implemented Do not specify a mandatory holiday for taxis and VTCHe urged us to add more and better Data hand “To improve mobility in Barcelona.” The fact that taxis have a weekly holiday reduces the fleet to about 8,000 between Monday and Friday. Regarding “big data”, it is a claim that applies to all actors in the field of transport, as a More rational management Providing resources based on objective data would allow for more efficient, effective and sustainable mobility.
Taxi drivers protest against vocational training centres, in September 2023 /ACN
The filling of Cabify has not gone unnoticed by taxi drivers, among others, because there is a long line of customers gathering there to get a ride at the corner facing the Espanya Industrial Park. Tito AlvarezA spokesperson for Elite Taxi indicated this Queues at Sants station have nothing to do with taxi drivers. “that it Access problem Cabify takes advantage of this situation Deception and manipulationThe combative taxi driver expressed his deep disapproval of the World Trade Center protest and regretted that the government is taking so long to pass the law that puts everyone in their place.
Something must be done
“We were patient but it’s over“This, if you look back, usually means,” he warned Fill and Eixample upside down. On Thursday, in a press conference, they will determine their next steps. Now there is no Mobile World Congress, but at the beginning of June the most important logistics exhibition in Europe is held and on June 19 it is A Formula 1 “show” was planned On Passeig de Gracia. Virgin never lacks moments in Barcelona.
(tags for translation) cabify protest Sants Defense VTC Barcelona
