The union of taxi drivers says the Government said they’ll use some of their offices to create an application that allows them to offer the service of transporting people, just as is done through the Uber platform.
Gilberth Ureña, spokesman for the National Taxi Drivers Forum, said that this had been one of the agreements taken on the night of July 4th, when the union and the government sat down to negotiate after two days of protests and blockades.
Both the minister (of Technology, Luis Salazar) and his deputy minister (of Telecommunications, Edwin Estrada) said their offices were available for us to create a platform where we can provide the service through networks to all users of public transport in this country,”
said Ureña to CRHoy.com via telephone.
In addition, according to Ureña, the State would manage this app and taxi drivers would be required to install it in order to offer their services.
However, this agreement is not written in the document signed by both parties on the night of July 4th. The second point of the letter states that
the Ministers of Labor, Science and Technology, together with the Vice Minister of the Presidency, will accompany (…) as far as they are concerned,”
without specifying the responsibilities.
Ureña explained that this agreement is not written because the most important aspect of that meeting was to reach an agreement on the illegality of Uber.