The PP's intervention comes after the taxi drivers arrived at an agreement with the government which requires the government to modify one of the more controversial aspects of the services - direct ones to the tourist resorts. They won't now be direct as they will stop at places with more than 15,000 residents.
The party also disagrees with the plan for fast lanes for buses (which would also be used by taxis) on motorways near to Palma. This is something else which the PP argues has made the processing of the transport plan totally wrong. The radical change envisaged, the party says, requires a wholly new processing in order to alter the current transport model.
Moreover, the change demands that there should be mobility and environmental studies in order to ensure that the model is sound. The law requires processing to include financial feasibility studies, social and environmental reports and forecasts regarding the road and rail networks. A fundamental procedure, the PP maintains, has been overlooked, which is to ask for reports from the Council of Majorca and town halls, as they are affected by any change.
Where the Council is concerned, the party insists that the government has disregarded the responsibilities that the Council has. It is indisputable, the PP claims, that the government hasn't followed the need for participation, while the plan is the result of improvisation without the rigour of studies to support it.
Meanwhile, the meeting at the transport ministry yesterday at which taxi-driver representatives were due to have rubber-stamped agreements reached on Friday broke up without there being any signing. The taxi drivers want time for their legal advisors to consider the transport plan. The drivers are also not ruling out taking the plan to court. Nevertheless, minister Marc Pons was confident that there will be ratification at a meeting due to take place next week.
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You couldn't make it up !, you get more sense from five year olds
What is happening now?2016, I paid 8,65 euros for every stay, buying a one way ticket from the airport to Puerto Pollensa. My hotel is always the first stop, so the trip takes 45 minuttes. Thats it.They still have the same price now in 2017 (8,65 euros), but also a SPEEDY, that cost 25 Euros. But comon, (sorry), how dos it get more speedy, when my stop is the first one, will they drive slower now...This is not transparency...??The private taxi fare is 80 euros (reserving throug Sun Transfer)
Partido Pathetic!
All this has done for me is to make sure that i get to and from the airport by bus. Taxi drivers can go bankrupt for all i care.
How this highlights the number of snouts in the trough. Oh, in case we have forgotten all these layers of government are paid for through our taxes!!
Reading this story makes me feel that Mallorca is one corupt Island. Before long it will only be all inclusive and it would never ever suprise me if they started to stop people sleeping on their boats. Thats how bad it is getting !!!!!!!!!!!!
Well,is anybody surprised ? Simple answer,put up the tourist tax,pay the taxi drivers a monthly allowance,let them put prices up,and,importantly mess us,the tourists up at the airport if trying to get one of these buses and trying to find out where they go and where they stop. Profit first,profit second and tourists a very poor third.