In their view, Palma town hall's announcement of creating 200 temporary licences for this summer is not viable. Biel Moragues of one of the associations believes that, at most, twenty of these temporary licences will be used. In addition to a lack of drivers, he points out that there are issues regarding the approval of vehicles and administrative processing, "which is slower than we would like".
He emphasises that it will be "impossible" to issue all the licences for this summer. "We are not going to find the cars, the drivers or the taximeters. Nor will there be time to process the licences." Antoni Bauzá on behalf of another association is highly critical of Palma town hall and states that "the shortage of taxis at night will be widespread in Palma for yet another year".
Arnau Bisquerra, president of Taxis Palma Radio, says that the town hall's temporary licence measure "should have been launched three or four months ago, which is what we had called for". It is now too late to be effective. The town hall's mobility department, in his opinion, is "slow and ineffective".
Elsewhere on the island, measures to address taxi shortages include an agreement in the north of Mallorca for picking up fares. Alcudia, Muro, Pollensa and Santa Margalida taxis are due to ratify an agreement on Thursday by which drivers will be able to pick up from municipalities other than their own when taxis are unavailable.
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Stan The ManThis coming Sunday we have elections. Assuming you are a British citizen (I am just guessing) and that you registered to vote you will be able to vote in the local election (although not the other two). As the local councils are responsible for taxis now is your chance to make your contribution to try to change things, at least in the area where you live.
So how many YEARS will it take to sort out the lack of Taxis ? It is just the same ALL OVER THE ISLAND.!!! Whoever is responsible for not solving this problem for several years now MUST BE SACKED for gross incompetence. Any form of Administration on this Island is very very poor. E.G.Residencia takes ONE YEAR with a lack of Staff to administer the process.