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  • Taxi Drivers Protest New Law With Increased Costs: Transport Ministe

    TAXI DRIVERS PROTEST NEW LAW WITH INCREASED COSTS: TRANSPORT MINISTER ADAMANT TO NOT AMEND THE LAW

    02.05.2015 17:26 epress.am

    Today, a group of individual taxi drivers (not employed by companies)
    gathered in front of the government building protesting a new law
    that came into effect on February 1, which states that individual
    taxi drivers have to receive a special license and pay 12,000 AMD
    ($25) a month to the state budget.

    The taxi drivers claim that the special license will cost close to
    50,000 AMD ($105) to obtain, because they have to present proof of
    installation for their gas system (gas balloon), taxi identification,
    advertisement (which needs to include the driver's number and tariff),
    and the vehicle must have a taximeter.

    The Minister of Transportation and Communications Gagik Beglaryan
    approached the protesters and said that he can not delay the law
    anymore, because it had to come into effect two years ago, but it
    had been delayed already.

    The drivers, however, say that many things have changed during the
    past two years and that 12,000 AMD is impossible to pay. During
    the past two years, delineated parking spots (red lines) have been
    added (which cost money), mandatory insurance, cameras photographing
    violations fixed across the city, increased prices of spare car parts,
    increased gas prices, and that there are simply less people to take
    taxis. According to the new law, drivers without a special license will
    be fined 50,000 AMD, driving without a meter or taxi identification,
    they will be fined 25,000 ($52) or 10,000 ($21) accordingly.

    According to the taxi drivers, they asked the Minister to drop the
    12,000 AMD monthly payment to 5,000 AMD, however Gagik Beglaryan
    said that the law would function the way it is written. The Minister
    promised that first time offenders of the law would not be fined,
    but warned.

    http://www.epress.am/en/2015/02/05/taxi-drivers-protest-new-law-with-increased-costs-transport-minister-adamant-to-not-amend-the-law.html

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