Taxi Driver Online

The ongoing saga of Taxi deregulation in Italy.
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Morning Star

May 9, 2007 Wednesday

Italian cabbies resist taxi deregulation

Thousands of Italian taxi drivers walked out on strike on Tuesday to protest against government plans to deregulate the service and open it to more competition.

About 25,000 cabs out of an estimated total of about 30,000 took part in the strike, with thousands attending a demonstration in central Rome, said taxi drivers' association head Maurizio Longo.

In Rome and Milan, the strike lasted from 8 am until 10 pm.

The cab drivers staged a massive protest last year which paralysed Rome and left the capital without cabs for days.

The government wants to deregulate taxi licensing, as part of a wider package of measures aimed at injecting more competition into various sectors of the economy.

It claims that consumers would ultimately benefit from more taxis, but the drivers are against the measures and are resisting decreased regulation after having had to spend tens of thousands of euros on purchasing their taxi licence.

Several strikes have hit Italy recently, including by doctors, Alitalia flight attendants and local transport workers in Milan.
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I think anyone who has ever tried to get a cab in Italy will understnad why they need sorting.

Maybe we should lend them JD for a few weeks.

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IDFIMH

Wouldn't happen up here. Most of them couldn't agree about the colour of sh*te

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Ah, but what if we agreed not to agree would we then have an agreement not to agree, while agreeing to everything that's not agreeable?

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Sounds too much like an agreement So I doubt it

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So what you are saying is: We’ll just have to agree not to agree? That’s a hell of a way not to have an agreement on anything

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

I quite agree!

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