Posted on 07/03/2015 4:24:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City is proposing regulations that would allow Uber and other smartphone-based ride-sharing apps to operate, while requiring drivers and cars to be registered, the city’s Office of Legal and Legislative Studies said Friday.
The proposed regulation also calls for such companies to pay into a fund for transportation infrastructure. The city would create an app for licensed taxis and help pay for their GPS technology.
The regulation so far does not specify what Uber and other app-based drivers would have to pay to operate.
Licensed cabbies have staged protests demanding authorities arrest Uber drivers and seize their cars.
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The taxi situation in Mexico City is a little unique. Most of them are Mexican built old style Volkswagen Beetles. Never take a taxi that hasn’t been called for by your hotel and only take the one with a license plate that matches the number the dispatch company gives them. Otherwise there’s a very good chance you’ll end up robbed and dead. Been a basic rule there for many years.
They don’t even have standards for taxis.
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