Around twenty private vehicles labeled as taxis and without provisional permits have been detected during the current administration in Tizimín.
The owners of these units are fined accordingly and warned that their cars will be seized if they repeat the offense.
Azael Aguilar Sanguino, head of the Tizimín municipal Transportation Department, said that this problem arose from the provisional permits granted by the state Transportation Department, during the previous administration, to more than fifty drivers protected by a group of taxi drivers in this city.
“After that, more “Pirate” taxis began to appear labeled and providing transportation services as if nothing happened”, said the official.
“We cannot allow them to continue working,” he stressed.
In the case of vehicles that do not correspond to public passenger service, he pointed out that as long as they have their provisional permit they can continue working.
“Many permits were granted for an indefinite period and there is no certainty about how long they will work with that document”, explained the official.
“In this case, we cannot do much because it was a state agency that granted the licenses, but we are trying to prevent more taxi drivers from joining irregularly; that is, from not having the provisional permit to work as taxi drivers,” he added.
Aguilar Sanguino did not rule out that this issue could be resolved with the delivery of new concessions and public service plates; in the meantime, they will be able to continue working.
The municipal official accepted that in addition to those who have been sanctioned, there are more offenders, “but it is difficult to detect them since they already have communication radios or WhatsApp groups where they receive alerts about the checkpoints and avoid passing through those places.”
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