The Ibiza Town Hall has announced a new seasonal licensing scheme for 2025 and the next four years, with a total of 174 authorizations divided into 116 for licensees and 58 for employees. This scheme includes a 50% update in the price of these licenses, which will cost 9,000 euros per year and has generated unease in the sector.
In an official statement, the City Council has informed this Wednesday about the meeting between the Councillor for Public Transport, Ruben Sousa, with the new president of the Association of Self-Employed Taxi Drivers of Ibiza, Mariano Torres“to report on the update of the prices of cab licenses after years without changes”. “Specifically, the update of seasonal licenses, granted for a period of four years instead of two, will be 9,000 euros per year,” the municipal authority has indicated. In statements to La Voz de Ibiza, Torres has recognized that this news has generated “a lot of controversy” among cab drivers. “Neither conforming nor much less”, has been his reaction. “The price is set by the City Council of Ibiza and we will have to assume it because they are in charge,” said Torres. “We assume the increase in costs. We assume it our economies, go.”” It is a controversial issue, but we have to assume that we depend on the City Council even though the licenses are ours,” Torres said. The increase is justified in a municipal economic report presented to Torres during yesterday’s meeting.
Security cameras and intrusion
The other two issues addressed during the meeting were the implementation of security cameras in vehicles and the fight against intrusion. According to the statement, Sousa “have already begun the process to provide greater security to cab drivers incorporating measures such as surveillance systems in cabs putting cameras inside the vehicles, as well as the installation of a panic button that drivers can press in case their customers can go very excited and even become violent”. On this point, Torres specified that the cameras will be subsidized by the Digital Kit. Regarding the intrusion, Sousa “has pledged to continue the pressure against illegal cab drivers initiated this term with joint and coordinated actions with the Consell Insular de Eivissa after the good results obtained this summer.” “Finally, the Councilor for Public Transport of the City Council of Eivissa has valued the predisposition of the sector to offer a quality service and has highlighted the benefits that during the winter the citizenship will have at least six operational vehicles (one of them adapted transport) during the night shift,” concluded the City Council.
