Mendoza approved the use of Uber: it is the first province to regulate the service

In the midst of protests and pressure from taxi drivers, the electronic platform


Uber
is already legal in Mendoza, which becomes the first province of the country
regulate the virtual system and also in the world's first city to allow use before the service disembarks.

The official decision has already been made and, despite the rejection at the last moment of the Justicialist Party and some of the Uncompromising, that they required changes and more time to study the project, the standard was sanctioned by 24 positive votes against 14 negatives.

Similarly, the discomfort of drivers and taxi owners does not stop. Indeed, they decided to get up early and demonstrate in the various streets of downtown before the treatment and approval of the law.

Hundreds of vehicles were concentrated in strategic points of the city, including two key sites: San Martín and Miter Street and Godoy Cruz, City. Once gathered in mbad, they marched in front of the provincial legislature to put more pressure on legislators, in line with what has been done in recent days by their colleagues in Buenos Aires and in various cities around the world, such as Santiago de Chile and Barcelona in Spain.

However, the initiative has obtained the approval of more than half of all members of the Senate, as was the case before the winter holidays to the Chamber of Deputies, although in this case the PJ approved the project. The government will now be responsible for regulating the law in the coming days, so we expect companies to start operating in September.

"It's a business that does not help anything, that will not have to deal with manpower issues It takes all the money," she added. is complaining Diego Vázquez, one of the leaders of the Association of Taxis Owners of Mendoza (Aprotam). "In Mendoza, there is no monopoly in taxis, it is where it is most distributed," added the president of the entity, Fernando Sáenz [[] 19659009].


Buenos Aires
digital platforms can now be developed, in line with what is happening in the more than 600 cities where the American company or its competitor Cabify operates.

The details of the law

With the amendment of the Highway Code 6.082, companies can operate under the "Private Transportation Service by Electronic Platforms" of public interest. Meanwhile, taxis and discounts will be included as "services of general interest and services rendered". In any case, vehicle owners must register the units and pay an amount for the rating.

Among the requirements, agreed in the amendments to the standard, are also that companies must pay a fee that will be intended for a fund to finance the acquisition of new transport units and that taxi drivers can also be part of the company, ie offer both services. There is a "1% surcharge on the total gross income tax trip corresponding to the activity."

On the other hand, the differences between Uber or Cabify and the taxi companies were obvious. discounts, which reside mainly in four points: the registration of an authorization, provisional and precarious; prohibition to make a public offer; they also do not guarantee a reasonable return in a tariff system, since they do not provide a service of general interest, but private and do not fulfill a continuous service, but adjusted to the demand and precursed requests. by the system.