No taxis in the country until Thursday morning

The state volition stay without taxis until the aboriginal hours of Thursday, December 4, owed to the 48-hour nationwide onslaught of taxi drivers. Among their demands are an hold of the deadline for mandatory electrification to 2035, and a renegotiation of taxi entree to bus lanes.

Yesterday, connected the archetypal time of the 48-hour strike, taxi drivers carried retired a motorcade protestation successful cardinal Athens, extracurricular the Ministry of Transport.

Some of the demonstrators acceptable up tents extracurricular the building, declaring they are determined to stay. The president of SATA, Thymios Lymperopoulos, spoke of a imaginable indefinite strike if nary gathering is held with the Deputy Minister of Transport, Konstantinos Kyranakis.

Protest marches besides took spot successful Thessaloniki and different large cities crossed the country.

This morning, taxi owners successful Thessaloniki are readying a gathering with their vehicles astatine the KTEL “Macedonia” autobus station, followed by a motorcade toward the farmers’ roadblock astatine the Malgara tolls.

The taxi owners’ demands include:

• Extension of the mandatory electrification deadline to 2035
• Measures against unfair contention caused by multinational ride-hailing apps
• Immediate enactment to halt amerciable rider transport by backstage cars (E.I.X.)
• Increase successful time-based charges and minimum fares nationwide
• Renegotiation of entree for afloat loaded taxis to peculiar lanes
• Implementation of each pending provisions successful the sector’s legislative bill
• Tariff adjustments
• Fair taxation treatment

They besides expect a gathering with the Ministry, wherever the union’s enactment and enactment representatives volition participate.