All the organizations of formal taxi drivers in the country met for five hours on Wednesday afternoon, with the aim of analyzing the government proposal contained in a bill that allows the coexistence of Uber and the regular taxi service.
As a result of the meeting, they created a commission that will be responsible for ensuring changes in the law in the Legislative Assembly and suspended the strike process they were planning.
According to Gilbert Ureña, the commission will be integrated by the leaders Randall Jiménez, Rubén Vargas, Carlos Ruiz Pérez, Maribel Guillén and himself.
For taxi drivers, the most important points are the number of vehicles that will be authorized to work on public transport platforms, which would be 30%, according to their proposal.
The leader indicated that they will also request that public transport permits be delivered individually and not to legal companies, as it is intended in the government project.
In addition, we will try not to remove the representative of the taxi drivers before the Board of Directors of the CTP; review the rate so that it protects existing legislation and protects users and, considering that the entry of new operators to the market without study of supply and demand, we will establish compensation for all taxi drivers,”
said Ureña.
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) presented the bill of law file 21.228 to endorse the operation of the US company in the country.