New war between taxi drivers and the autonomous government of Madrid. The president of the Community of Madrid (CAM), Isabel Díaz Ayuso, considered last February the possibility of collaborating with the taxi sector so that 20% of the health services that did not require ambulances would be carried out by them. Only a few months later, the situation has changed completely and the CAM has decided to separate the taxi sector from the home transfer service of medical doctors to grant the concession to the VTC Auro for the next five years.
The operation has been carried out with a reimbursement of 8.5 million for one of the groups that currently has the largest fleet, with more than 2,300 authorizations. To date, the home transfer service to medical doctors was carried out through PideTaxi, a taxi request application to which the Professional Taxi Federation (FPTM) and its own station, TeleTaxi, belong. From now on, the concession will be carried out by the Auro group.
This sentence has not sat well with the taxi sector. “With this decision, Isabel Díaz Ayuso once again betrays the trust of the taxi sector and makes a new contempt for the union that selflessly provided services during the hardest months of the health crisis,” says Julio Sanz, president of the FPTM.
The dissatisfaction of taxi drivers with the decisions adopted by the CAM is a constant in recent times. This action joins the one on June 1, in which more than 1,500 taxis blocked the center of Madrid to show their disagreement against the new Transport Law that will allow the VTC to continue circulating in the capital without accessing the reserved conditions. exclusively to the taxi starting next October.
The decision further widens the gap between the taxi drivers and the CAM government, who even claim that the PP government is running in favor of a few multinationals with which they have particular interests. “Each new decision by the CAM government team is one more contempt for a sector on which more than 15,000 families in the region depend and which has repeatedly shown its commitment to the people of Madrid. The Popular Party government team dismantles a public service for the benefit of a few multinationals with whom they have particular interests”, says Sanz.
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