Taxi driver collided with Uber in Bavaro to avoid picking up tourists
The Minister of Tourism, David Collado, described as unacceptable the alteration of public order in the country’s tourist centers, this in relation to an attack by a taxi driver against a driver of the Uber transport platform.
The minister said that the National Police and the Specialized Tourist Security Corps will bring to justice the driver responsible for the violent event, which occurred in Bávaro.
The conflict raised despite a memorandum of understanding signed this week between the local unions and the Uber drivers.
A video uploaded to social media shows that a taxi driver belonging to one of the unions in the area crashed his vehicle against another car on the Uber platform, to prevent him from boarding tourists in the area.
Taxistas persiguen y chocan a Uber que abordó turistas fuera de hotel en Bávaro en #republicadominicana https://t.co/BhnZbUGCnn pic.twitter.com/ixMyyMPWJZ
— Comunidadinformativaglobal (@Tonyp584) March 20, 2021
“Under no circumstances will we allow acts of violence that affect our tourism,” Minister Collado said in a short press release.
On December 13th, the Dominican Government stopped the work of the transport company Uber in the airport environments while the regulatory situation of “the entire company is not clarified with the authorities.”
The National Institute of Transportation and Land Transit said that it is its competence, and of the services platform, to carry out all the necessary steps to regularize the activities of its associates in the country, “in order to maintain order, peace, and competence”.
“The government urged Uber representatives to stop all activities in airport environments, and inform all its associates of the need not to provide these services while the regulatory situation of the entire company is not clarified with the authorities”, reads an official document.