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The company intends that the taxis that work with its ‘app’ take the ticket in those 44 parking spaces of the infrastructure
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The taxi drivers, who demonstrate again this Thursday in Barcelona, assure that it is not legal for colleagues who operate with the company to wait for their clients there
hit effect of Uber the day before the metropolitan taxi drivers of Barcelona take to the streets once again against the multinational that has made three attempts, so far without much success, to gain ground in the collective transport in the Catalan capital. The company announced this Wednesday that it has won a public tender called by Aena (the award took place at the beginning of November 2021) in order to have 116 parking spaces in different Spanish airports to be able to pick up their clients from their rental vehicles with driver. In the case of The Prat will have 44 holes and they will be available in the coming weeks, but there is a peculiar problem: Uber has not had a VTC in the city for three years, so it should operate with the few taxis that have the ‘app’ activated.
Through a statement, the multinational reports that they have also achieved car parks in Madrid (36 places) and Malaga (36) for a period of two years, extendable to a third. The same note indicates that it is a “contract tendered by Aena to provide new parking spaces for VTC vehicles at airports”. Despite this, and in conversation with this newspaper, an Uber spokesperson assures that their intention is for their taxis to pick up their passengers in those places, and not at the outside stop, given that they no longer have VTC, since They were removed after approval of the decree approved by the Government in 2019, which greatly limited the freedom of maneuver of these licences. The Elite Taxi spokesman, Titus Alvarezassures that taxi drivers are obliged to use the stop enabled by the airport itself abroad and advances that any colleague who uses those seats “they will be fined by the Mossos“.
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Slow march
Uber’s announcement, this Wednesday, of a contract they won in November comes 24 hours before the taxi sector takes to the streets, precisely against this company, which filed a Complaint against Elite Taxi and Taxi Project 2.0 which has resulted in the opening of a sanctioning file for alleged boycott. Taxi drivers will concentrate on Thursday in Tarragona street and will start a slow march at 10:30 am. The routewith final destination in ParliamentIt will be as follows: Gran Via, Balmes, Pelayo, Fontanella, Via Laietana, Marqués Argentera and the Arc de Triomf area, where they will leave the taxis parked.