Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Taxi strike: 780 vehicles mobilized – The Point

Some 780 taxis were mobilized Wednesday morning for the second consecutive day to protest against the competition of transport vehicles with driver, Porte Maillot and the Bercy district of Paris, as well as around airports, a-t- was learned from the police headquarters. At mid-day, “780 taxis were mobilized” at Porte Maillot at Bercy and the airports, told AFP the police headquarters, adding that no incident was reported. After calling motorists to “largely around” sectors of the Porte Maillot, in the west of Paris, the Ministry of Finance at Bercy in eastern Paris, and avoid using their cars to travel to the Orly and Roissy, Bison Smart said the traffic was “very calm” in the Paris area.

At 11 h 30, the traffic was fluid with 30 km of traffic jams on the cumulative Paris Region network, against 50 km usual. By midmorning, “about 200 taxis” provoked “slowdowns, including inputs and west of the airport” Roissy, to challenge the competition of transport vehicles with driver (VTC), told AFP Delegate Prefect for the safety and security of Roissy and Le Bourget, Philippe Riffaut. Earlier in the morning, police prevented the strikers to filter and to lower the customers of VTC, to prevent spillage between taxi drivers and VTC.

At Orly, ten Strikers blocked the Orly Sud taxi ranks and “five or six” at Orly West, according to a source familiar with the matter. It has reported a “somewhat strong altercation” between strikers and non-strikers, which led to the arrest of a striker. Place Porte Maillot remained busy in quiet a few hundred taxi, said a journalist from AFP. On Tuesday, the protests of more than 2000 taxi drivers protesting against competition from VTC resulted in some incidents and blocked traffic on several points in the Ile-de-France. Eighteen taxi drivers were remanded in custody.

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