UBER. In the middle of the scandal regarding the emergency ordinance that left the ridesharing platform without about half of its drivers, it has unexpected help from Calin Popescu Tariceanu, the president of the Romanian Senate. Over the weekend, the president of the Romanian Senate was seen leaving the headquarters of the ALDE party in Bucharest in a car that would have been called by UBER to transport him to another location in the Romanian capital, without SPP escort.
UBER. Over time, Calin Popescu Tariceanu was one of those who argued that services of this kind should be regulated in Romania in order to function legally, and not be banned. His action of the past few days is a clear proof of his dissatisfaction vis-à-vis the situation in which UBER, or Bolt, is at the moment, the drivers of these platforms being hunted by the police, with the help of the taxi drivers, they being fined, and leave the cars immobilized.
UBER. DESPERATE help from Tariceanu
UBER. Last week, those from ALDE requested through the page on the Facebook social network that ridesharing platforms be officially regulated in Romania, and as soon as possible. This was also promised by the Minister of Transport, but UBER, Bolt, or Clever Taxi, will have to wait until next month at the earliest to have an emergency ordinance that will allow them to have their activity returned to normal in Romania.
We believe that ridesharing and taximetry should not conflict or come into conflict, but complement each other. The greater the competition between services, the more the advantage can only be for the citizen. Therefore, the Government must find a formula in which the two are complementary in a fair competition, from which the citizen wins first and foremost.
UBER. In the meantime, customers are left to choose between paying triple prices for ridesharing services, or returning to the taxi drivers they ran away from, and never want to return to. The choice is an impossible one, but it is so because the Government forced it, because the UBER, Bolt situation could have been regulated in time, if it had been wanted, but this way taxi drivers are given a false hope that they have solved the problem, and customer frustration.
