Bariloche will regulate Uber and other service applications

2023-05-26 03:05:00

The mayor Gustavo Gennuso finally, on the edge of the holiday, issued on Wednesday the resolution to suspend the Uber transport platform in Bariloche for a period of 30 days and his team finalizes the details to promote a regulation of this and other services that are offered digitally.

The strong resistance of taxi drivers and remises drivers before the landing of Uber, which on Tuesday staged protests and traffic cuts at strategic points in the city, was appeased for the moment with the mayor’s commitment to regulate the activity.

The drivers wanted a more drastic measure with a ban on the system but the legal team of the municipality ruled out that idea because there is jurisprudence in the Supreme Court of Justice that benefits the platform.

Gennuso confirmed to BLACK RIVER that the draft ordinance to regulate the activity is in the process of socialization with other actors, especially entities linked to taxi drivers and remiseros. He remarked that He had a meeting with the company Uber that was “bad” and ruled out sitting down with the company for now.

The idea of ​​the Executive is to present the project to the Deliberative Council as soon as possible and work on a more comprehensive regulation than Uber and transportation systems. “An authorization will be implemented for all digital platforms through which an intermediation of goods and services is carried out”, he clarified to BLACK RIVER the Chief of Staff, Marcela González Abdala.

With this premise, the same ordinance will regulate the operation of Uber and the like, but also Neat, Glovo, Airbnb and anyone who generates a commercial transaction.

In this way, this type of platform You must have a municipal permit. with compliance with a series of guidelines and pay a tribute.

In addition, in the case of Uber, a regulation and authorization for vehicles and driverswith the focus on providing “security to passengers” who use this type of service.


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