While cab drivers across the Balearics are expecting an update in fares by 2025, the Consell de Ibiza has taken a step that seems to tend to keep them at bay. Or, at least, so interprets Joan Marí Rieraa member of the board of the Agrupación de Autotaxis de las Islas Baleares and representative in Ibiza of the Federación Empresarial Balear de Transporte, who criticizes the proposal of the Consell insular to leave established, from now on, the local holidays for the next five years (which will be two per year and vary between the 5th, 8th and 24th of August).
“With the aim of simplifying the metrological control of taximeter devices and avoid the continuous review and verification of its parameters, it has been decided to make a proposal on the holidays planned until 2030,” says the proposed agreement of the Consell that reached the authorized workshops for the installation of fares in taximeters. An argument that, Marí points out to La Voz de Ibiza, is absurd. “Taximeters must be updated every year for a metrological control issue, beyond whether the rate is maintained or what happens with holidays.” For the cab driver, this is a measure that aims to keep fares at bay, since the Consell has anticipated the claims that the various groups of cab drivers in the Balearic Islands expect to make in January, once the Govern approves the economic study model, which would enable increases. “I do not know why the Consell has been in such a hurry,” Marí complained. In turn, claims that the proposal of holidays for the five-year period 2025-2030 has come directly to the workshops, rather than having been shared to cab drivers or have been made public through the agency’s website.
Reply
Marí has responded to the Consell’s proposal with a letter in which, together with other cab drivers, he asks “not only for the approval of local holidays, but also a rate increase in application of the economic study model to be approved by the Balearic Government in early 2025“. In the text, they also request “that the updates of the rates, with or without modifications, be approved year by year, as established by the applicable regulations of the metrological control”. Incidentally, the cab driver has emphasized that the update of rates is already long overdue, since the last increase was in March 2023.
