Over 300 taxi drivers continued their strike against the “unfair competition” posed by Uber and other personal transport services, by partially blocking the access to Faro airport with their vehicles.
This is day six of a national strike that has enable Uber and others to expand their services, especially in Porto, Lisbon and the Algarve.
The strike will continue, according to Algarve First, one of the taxi associations, which says that the government, "has to hear us, if this does not happen, we will be in protest until November 1st.”
Taxi drivers say they are unable to compete with the new style services as they are hampered by layers of bureaucracy built up over the years with cost implications that Uber drivers do not have to incur.
The new ‘Uber Law’ passed by the government has yet to be cleared by the Constitutional Court with the taxi drivers’ union saying the law allows unfair competition rather than a level playing field.
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How tourists arriving at the airport went on for getting a taxi I don’t know - but there didn’t seem to be any in the taxi ranks
are people stuck in the stone age,
blah, blah, blah, i want to get the perspective from younger people, the millennials, what they think, what they want, the future belongs to them, the needs of the world is changing, more competition is needed to stop monopolies dictating to the public like the Taxi mafia world wide, their way of doing things is on the way out, the Taxi industry as is will die a slow death, just accept the change or die with it. Next time you ask your friend or neighbour to give you a lift to the train station or airport, ask them,,,, ''are you regulated in the same way as the local taxi'' people have been Ubering since the first car went off the production line,, so all you old farts, stop crying and face reality.
Uber taxis should have the same regulations as local taxis, it's the only fair solution.