Taxi

Taxis in Sofia with new prices. They were adopted today by the Transport Commission in the Sofia Municipal Council.

The minimum daily tariff becomes BGN 1.05 per kilometer, and the maximum - BGN 1.78.
The minimum night tariff becomes BGN 1.21 per kilometer, and the maximum - BGN 2.19.

The new prices come into force on January 1, 2022.

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Authorities have imposed a new string of rules for taxi drivers who recently have been at the center of increasing complaints due to picking tourists over local customers and not accepting short-distance rides.

Offering rapid transportation compared to other means of transportation in Istanbul, a metropolis divided by the Bosphorus, sea taxis are preparing to set off in order to reduce the intercontinental transits of the city's residents to a more reasonable time.

Extra bonuses are provided by the new plans of the government for the "greening" of taxis. This is because in the… invitation of the program "I move Electrically" the 10,500 euros (8,000 euros for subsidy, 2,500 euros for withdrawal) drew only 13 taxi drivers in about a year. The pandemic, with the lockdowns, which stuck taxis for months, did not help either.

Inspections on taxi drivers in Istanbul's Beyoğlu and Eminönü districts have revealed the differences in treatment toward local Turks and visiting foreigners.

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The payment of the fifth phase of the cheap state loans program known as the "Deposit To Be Returned" begins on Wednesday for 361,888 enterprises that the Finance Ministry deems have made the cut.

A probe by the Hellenic Police (ELAS) into a vitriol attack last month on a 34-year-old woman in Kallithea, southern Athens, is focusing on the testimony of a taxi driver who leased his cab to the suspected assailant and the latter's calls to the cab company, Kathimerini understands.

A taxi driver who kicked a pregnant woman in labor out of his cab in the Marmara province of Kocaeli's Çayırova district has been sentenced to house arrest.

The driver, identified only by the initials M.B., took Aisha Hashem, a Syrian woman whose water had just broken, into his cab but later kicked her out after she showed signs of labor.

The union representing Attica taxi drivers, SATA, has proposed that a cabbie be deprived of his license after forcing an injured woman out of his car on Thursday because he feared getting his vehicle dirty.

Describing the driver's behavior as "not only unprofessional but inhuman," SATA called on the Transport Ministry to withdraw his license and ban him from driving a taxi.

Turkish police and municipal security officers seek to find a total of 120 taxi drivers who have scammed tourists.