The City Council of Santa Eulària wants to have its own x-ray of the situation of the cab sector. For this reason, in parallel to the study being carried out by the Balearic Government, which includes a survey questioned by the different groups, it is carrying out one of its own. As recognized to La Voz de Ibiza municipal sources, they need these results to start defining the seasonal plan for 2025. “In order to have seasonal cabs, a study must be carried out to determine whether or not there is a need for this type of licenses (which obviously exists but this must be properly justified in order to comply with the regulations) and to determine what amount is considered necessary,” said a spokesman for the City Council. In addition, they have explained that “it has to be done every time a seasonal plan is made. The last one we did was in 2022″. The study is in “completion phase. Our intention is to be able to approve the plan early next year,” they say. “Basically, it consists of gathering statistical information on fixed and floating population, tourist movements, characteristics of the municipality, the public transport network and other elements and any other relevant information that can be obtained. With it we will try to determine whether seasonal licenses are needed or not and on what quantities it is estimated that would have to be authorized to try to provide the necessary service,” they have detailed.
Collision
This study prepared by Santa Eulària coincides in time with the one being conducted by a company commissioned by the Government for weeks. This last one, as La Voz de Ibiza advanced, seeks to define how many ordinary and temporary licenses are necessary both in high and low season for both types of passenger transport.. As well as how many VTC licenses are recommended for both types. “I do not know what the Govern is doing, but we have to have a document referring to our municipality,” have responded from the municipality of Santa Eulària. In addition to the security holes in the survey launched by the Government among cab drivers, the absence of a mechanism to discriminate the veracity of the answers and the loss of reliability among cab drivers’ collectives, now the applicability of the results is added.
Contract
Although the City Council avoided giving details of the methodology of the study, they have responded that it is “carried out by specialists“. “It is a company called Tema Ingeniería, the amount is around 5,000 euros and we estimate a month or month and a half to have it done,” they have informed La Voz de Ibiza. The same firm was in charge of the study 2 years ago. “With our own resources we could not do this specialized study,” reported the Consistory. From the contracting of the study infers that the Santa Eulària Town Hall will not wait to have the results of the study of the Govern that has to serve as a basis for drafting the regulations provided for in the cab law approved unanimously at the beginning of February last year, except for minor details. The law exempts seasonal licenses from the moratorium imposed on ordinary licenses, which has disrupted municipal cab plans and municipal budgets. It goes without saying that it will not take into account the insular reality of the cab, now substantiated in an insular charging order that allows cabs from other municipalities to operate throughout the island under certain conditions, pending progress in the claimed area of joint provision.
