Veltroni: the supply increases by 30%, no more blocks wild
Taxi, City of Rome-union agreement Confirm
500 new licenses, by mid-June. But the rates will increase by 18%: Codacons: crazy price increases
A moment of protest by taxi last week (Reuters) ROME - It's been agreed between taxi drivers and the municipality of Rome with the confirmation of 500 new licenses. After today's meeting between the letters representing the interests of taxi - CGIL, CISL, UIL, UGL - and the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, has arrived in the cartel which includes 250 new licenses by June 2008 and for many the same month the following year.
VELTRONI SATISFIED - This was announced by the mayor himself who explained: "With this measure we will have two thousand new taxis in Rome, Bersani decree today, 30% in over supply. " Veltroni has also renewed the representatives of trade unions "the strongest condemnation of what happened ten days ago with the blockade of the city: I consider that this category has to restore the relationship with citizens."
RATES MORE 'HIGH - At the same time confirmation of the new licenses, they agreed on an adjustment of rates equal to 18% more, "which will take place - even the mayor said - after the council vote scheduled for Wednesday 12. At Christmas, then the new rates will be in place.
PROTESTS - Codacons harshly attacked the agreement reached today between the City of Rome, and taxi drivers and announced an appeal to the TAR of Lazio: for the association of consumer protection the agreement "provides for abnormal price increases in the face of a limited increase in the number of licenses. This is absolutely insane price increases, insufficient for a service that costs more in Rome than in the rest of Europe, "says the president of Codacons, Carlo Rienzi.
December 10, 2007 (Last updated: December 11, 2007)
