US EditionUber Accelerates His Agreements with Taxi Drivers to Avoid Limitations in Barcelona
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“The goal is to help taxi drivers increase revenue and reduce costs, thus contributing to their economic recovery.” This was one of the messages Uber launched to Barcelona taxi drivers in 2021 when, after the pandemic, he decided that his platform for hiring Transport Vehicles with Driver (VTC) could also expand to the taxi in the Catalan capital. Four years have passed since then and, on Thursday, most of the Catalan Parliament’s formations pre…
The groups of PSC, Junts, ERC, Comuns and CUP in the Parliament of Catalonia carried out this Thursday the approval of the new law of the transport of passengers in vehicles of up to nine places that, as proposed by its draft, will sweep away from the metropolitan area the main competition of the taxi drivers, that will make disappear the cars of hire with driver that usually attract their customers through the applications of Bolt, Uber and Cab…
The parliamentary groups of the PSC, Junts, ERC, Comuns and CUP have presented the taxi bill and hope that it will be approved during 2026. They will now open negotiations to achieve sufficient consensus. The new taxi law will require a minimum level of Catalan. The text provides for the elimination of urban VTCs in the metropolitan area of Barcelona as their licenses expire. It also creates a new category, High-Disposition VTCs, which must have…
The legislative initiative that, in a very unusual image, have registered this Thursday PSC, Junts, ERC, Comuns and the CUP in the Parliament puts order to the taxi service and VTC, establishing very different conditions. The taxi is established as an economic service of general interest and is subject to public service obligations: it will not be able to reject any user, will continue with its regulated tariff that the user will see in the taxi…
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