The Avilés City Council reduces the taxi fleet from 50% to 25%
The number of taxis that operate every day in Avilés will be reduced again.
On March 18, a City Council decree reduced the service by half, after the conversations of the Mobility department with the Aviles cooperatives, and yesterday a new regulation was made public that leaves the number of vehicles on the street by 25% of the total, with which only twenty-five taxis will work every day in addition to one adapted.
In this way, the City Council responds to a request from the two Avilés cooperatives and the two most representative associations of the sector (Asturian Taxi Union Federation (FAST), the Association of Auto Taxi Employers of the Principality of Asturias (Asotaxi), Teletaxi Avilés and Radiotaxi Villa del Adelantado).
Of the 101 taxi licenses in Avilés, only two operate with adapted vehicles and, according to the decree, these are excluded in this municipal regulation.
Specifically, the resolution indicates that “the two licenses with adapted vehicles (4 and 92) will rotate on alternate days, to guarantee coverage for people with reduced mobility.”
As in the first decree, the Consistory leaves the sector itself to be the one that regulates how this decision is organized.
Only as a guideline it points out that on even days the licenses whose number is also will operate, while on odd days those with an odd number will operate.
The cooperatives will have to transfer information every day to the Department of Mobility and the City Council with the vehicles that will be operating on the street so that there can be a control of compliance with the decree.
On the other hand, the obligation of taxi drivers to carry out a daily cleaning of transport vehicles in accordance with the recommendations established by the Ministry of Health is maintained.
The Avilés City Council reduces the taxi fleet from 50% to 25%
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