From 04:00 this Monday, March 21, 2022 representatives of several taxi cooperatives in Quito went to the historic center to claim against the digital applications that work with private vehicles, demand greater control over informality.
Taxi drivers also ask to be part of the exceptions in the Pico and Placa vehicle restriction.
In the streets Venezuela and Sucre, next to the Plaza de la Independencia, more than a hundred people were stationed who asked to be received by the mayor Santiago Guarderas, however, the metal fences and police presence prevented them from reaching the Municipal Palace.
the leaders Carlos Brunis, Fernando Cadena, Alex Morales and Paco Velasco, They pointed out in a statement that the measure is taken in view of not having answers to their demands made to the municipality, one of them, the exclusion of the yellow units from the vehicular restriction measure of the peak and license plate, for which the unionists called for a concentration in the Plaza Grande to all those who have restricted movement this Monday.
“We are not against digital platforms, but of the vehicles that do not have an operating permit that work in these applications”, said Brunis.
The Secretary of Mobility of Quito, Richard Well reported that the Metropolitan Transit Agency has carried out 137 control operations, achieving the retention of 134 vehicles for failing to comply with the required permits.
About restriction Peak and Plate which works in Quito from Monday to Friday from 06:00 to 09:30 and from 16:00 to 21:00 Brunis said that approximately 12,000 units stop working and with it the same number of people would be left without the service.
For his part, Ricardo Pozo pointed out that this measure is not feasible, because the traffic is high and with this type of safe-conduct there would be an increase of 30,000 vehicles on the streets of the city.
The concentration of people planned to reach the Plaza Grande, outside the Municipal Palace, however, all the access streets to this square were blocked, so they held a march and announced that tomorrow from 06:00 they will hold a sit-in again until they are received by the authorities. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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