the taxi industry associations challenged this Friday the government’s decision to legalize the activity of new platforms for mobility as Uber and promised defense measures.
“what government wants is not to solve the industry’s problems. Anda looking to get take some arguments that call into question the illegality of the Uber and not only, as unfair competition, tax evasion, etc., “he told Lusa the president of Portuguese Taxi Federation.
Carlos Ramos spoke to Lusa after the Assistant Secretary of State and the Environment, José Mendes, announced that the government will legalize the activity of new mobility platforms like Uber, and the passenger service uncharacterized vehicles. the
This decision follows the recommendations made to the Government by the working group created to examine the public passenger transport in light vehicles, which were represented representative associations of the taxi industry, which disagreed with the majority of the recommendations.
for Carlos Ramos, the socialist executive wants “to confine taxis and their platforms in order to create conditions to liberalize the transport sector to the disfigured vehicles “.
And exemplified saying that the Government does not accept that the applications developed by the taxi sector work for disfigured vehicles, because they” are only for the mobility solution platforms. “
“If the House Lisbon has recognized that there are a thousand more taxis in the city, we recommended a thousand taxis descaracterizassem and adhere to the platform. This Government also did not accept, “lamented
For Carlos Ramos, this was a way to solve that it considers to be the problem.” More serious “created by the Government’s decision: the contingency of vehicles ( number of vehicles that can operate limit).
“they want to do it [the legalization process] not creating vehicles contingency. It’s free. Any vehicle uncharacteristic who wants to join the platform can do it. This is the end of public passenger transport. This is deregulating the sector, “he said.
Speaking to Lusa, the president of the National Association of Road Carriers for Passenger Cars (ANTRAL), Florencio de Almeida, said that” there is still a long way to go and associations will not allow it [legalization] lightly. “
” you can count on a great street defense that will be unstoppable for sure. The associations will not allow the sector to be deregulated to regulate what is illegal, “he said.
For now, the two associations will meet next week and appeal to political parties with parliamentary seats and chambers of Lisbon and Porto to intervene, “because they have a say about the contingent of transport in their municipalities,” said the president of FPT.
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