PSOE and Adelante Málaga ask the board to protect the taxi against the VTC
The municipal groups of the PSOE and Adelante Málaga have asked the Junta de Andalucía to protect the taxi sector by controlling and limiting the activity of VTC vehicles in the Malaga capital by approving the decree with the measures already agreed upon.
This has been stated in a statement by councilors Mariano Ruiz, for the PSOE, and Eduardo Zorrilla, for Adelante Málaga, signatories of a joint motion that will be defended during the next Mobility commission.
For his part, the Socialist mayor has demanded that the Board “look after the interests of the families of the taxi sector in the city and limit the activity of the VTC, which in Malaga have more than 1,000 licenses.”
Thus, he recalled that the taxi sector has mobilized on numerous occasions demanding a fair regulation that protects them, as a public service, against unfair competition from Uber and Cabify.
The councilor spokesman for the confluence of Podemos and Izquierda Unida, Eduardo Zorrilla, for his part, has considered:
“It is urgent that the Government of Andalusia fulfill its commitment and immediately approve the decree for the application of the agreed measures to limit the activity of VTC vehicles and modernize and make the taxi sector more competitive.”
From Adelante they have recalled that among the limitations to the VTC that the decree must contain are:
“The necessary prohibition for them to park without being pre-contracted in areas of great demand by travelers, such as stations, commercial areas, judicial headquarters, hotels, cultural or social sporting events, as well as measures that make it difficult for them to attract customers by taking advantage of their geolocation” .
In the same vein, the PSOE councilor has asked the City Council:
“To intensify its surveillance, intervention and punishment of non-compliances carried out by the VTC, especially in the areas with the greatest influx of travelers, in addition to the obligation to pre-contract their services with a minimum notice of 15 minutes.”
Ruiz Araújo has indicated that, locally, “we urge the government team to exempt taxable events related to the provision of auto-taxi services for the substitution of vehicles subject to license and revision municipal vehicle annual and extraordinary corresponding to the current year ».
For his part, the mayor of Adelante has expressed his alarm at “the continuous growth of VTC authorizations under the protection of the lack of commitment to the taxi sector from both the municipal government team and the Andalusian executive.”
“The increase has been 20 percent in the last year, reaching 1,815 authorizations in our province, 83 new only in the last month, which means that Malaga accounts for two thirds of the VTC licenses in Spain.”
With regard to intrusion, “a more energetic attitude is also required on the part of the municipal government team in the control of legal breaches and unfair competition exercised by the VTCs.
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PSOE and Adelante Málaga ask the board to protect the taxi against the VTC
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