Photo: PixabayThe Deputy Mayor of Belgrade, Goran Vesić, passed a decision which increases the number of allowed taxi vehicles for performing taxi transport in the capital for 2022. This year, there will be 500 more cars on the streets, so passengers will have a total of 6,410 taxis at their disposal.
As part of the planning of needs in public transport of passengers and goods in Belgrade for the period from May 25, 2022 to May 25, 2027, the program determined the optimal number of vehicles whose work meets the needs for taxi transport in Belgrade.
This program is adopted on the basis of the Study "Planning and design of passenger taxi transport system in Belgrade" from 2020. As it was determined, within the planned needs for the period from 2022 to 2027, the capital needs 7,006 taxi vehicles.
"Based on this program, the mayor of Belgrade determines the allowed number of taxis in the city for each calendar year, until the optimal number is reached in 2027," reads a document published in the Official Gazette of the City of Belgrade.
Let us remind you, after several days of speculation and the announcement of protests, the prices of taxi services in the capital increased in February this year. Although the Professional Association of Taxi Entrepreneurs SITAB asked for a linear increase of 30 percent or a start instead of 170 dinars for 300 dinars due to the growth of costs, which jumped from 50 to 100 percent, this did not happen, so taxi drivers remained dissatisfied, biznis.rs writes.
Thus, for all tariffs from February 17 this year, the start is 50 dinars more expensive and now amounts to 220 dinars. A kilometer of driving according to the first tariff costs 80 dinars, and for the second tariff, which refers to night, holiday and driving on Sundays, the price is 100 dinars. The third tariff, which includes driving outside the marked points of the city area, costs passengers 130 dinars per kilometer traveled. Waiting per hour for all tariffs is the same and amounts to 900 dinars.
Until this increase, the starting price was 170 dinars for all three tariffs, while the ride per kilometer for the first tariff was 65 dinars, for the second tariff 85 dinars, and for the third 130 dinars. Waiting per hour for all three tariffs cost 750 dinars.
Source: biznis.rs
