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Moscow taxi drivers held a rally against low tariffs “Yandex.Taxi” and Uber

In Moscow held a rally drivers official taxi companies against popular online services. On Tuesday according to REF. Taxi drivers are unhappy with the low fares that install Yandex.Taxis, Uber and other app to call a taxi.

It was expected that a meeting of taxi drivers on Suvorovskaya square will gather not less than 300 drivers. In the end it’s no more than 50, despite the fact that many of its participants, specially came to Moscow from afar – Smolensk, Kursk and other Russian cities. They are all employees of the official taxi companies.

Requirements for drivers of several. The principal is to limit the role of dispatchers in the formation of tariffs for journey in a taxi. Competition between these services in the battle for customers has led to the fact that the minimum fare taxi today on par with the cost of one trip in the subway. As a result, the income of the drivers is substantially less than the cost of gasoline, rental vehicle and traffic fines.

Employees of cab companies participated in the event with posters “the tyranny of the Gadgets — no”, as well as the “Uber of Aramovich Go Home”. Some of them came on cars with banners and Gett “Yandex.Taxi”.

“For 12-15 hours, in any case, this 1500 gasoline. Not counting their needs: to wash the car there…well, somewhere around two thousand goes. A day. It even if it doesn’t rent,” says Leo Mokin, a taxi driver.

In addition to raising fares require taxi drivers to reduce the cost of CTP for a taxi, which today it is two times higher than conventional car owners; to establish responsibility for dispatching services for the transmission of orders semi-legal and illegal taxi drivers.

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“Progress is moving forward, the taxis are fading in the format in which they were. And you cannot fly on the wagon in space”, – said Vladimir Vasilyev, Director of public relations automotive company.

Don’t want to raise fares and taxi passengers. “If we were to increase the taxis, the people, again, will be hard to get taxis,” says Oleg Gorudko, entrepreneur.

In July, the St. Petersburg taxi drivers appealed with an open letter to the Governor of the city Georgy Poltavchenko in connection with the appearance on the market of applications for call taxi – Uber, GetTaxi and “Yandex.Taxi”. The authors of the letter called the situation on the taxi market of St. Petersburg “critical”.

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