Refusing to go on the road, switching to gas, expecting a price hike: how taxi services have changed during the fuel crisis
Taxi drivers struggle to find gas just as much as ordinary drivers. This inevitably impacts their work, making it very difficult.
🚕In Kuban 10% of taxi drivers have stopped working on the road – this is about it said head of the regional trade union Alexander KaznacheevThe rest, in his own words, "make do as best they can," even though standing in line at gas stations takes up most of their work time and doesn't contribute to their previous income.
In Novorossiysk drivers refused to work and returned the rented cars to the fleets. Taxi driver from Irkutsk and also complained about losing a job - there is not enough time for work itself because of the lines for gasoline;
🚕In Petersburg prices have skyrocketed Electric car rentals: Taxi drivers are abandoning conventional car rentals and lining up for electric vehicles. The daily rental price for electric cars has increased from 2700 rubles to 3300 rubles.
At the taxi depot Sverdlovsk region stated that vehicle downtime increased from 13% to 30%. Therefore, for example, the Avtogermanika fleet was urgently sets gas equipment for its 200 vehicles;
🚕Taxi service prices, as they say, aren't always so clear-cut. In some cities, taxi drivers claimthat passenger transportation prices will soar—but only if the situation doesn't stabilize by autumn. At the same time, the chair of the Public Council for Taxi Development Irina Zaripova warned: Taxi prices will rise very soon, and this form of transport may become a luxury.
In Moscow The cost of some routes has doubled. For exampleA trip from Vnukovo to Lyubertsy recently cost 1300-1700 rubles, but recently the price increased to 3000 rubles. But even for that price, the taxi driver couldn't get there—he ran out of gas. Another taxi driver quoted 3700 rubles.
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