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SP taxis will have to accept cards and can carry bicycles

11.24.2015

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All taxis in São Paulo will have to allow the use of credit and debit cards for payment races. Drivers will have 30 days to suit. The determination was published by the Department of Public Transport (DTP) City Hall on Friday (20) in the Official Gazette of the municipality. The measure also requires that taxis have mobile charger and tablets.

Another ordinance, also published on Friday, authorizes (without force) taxis to have support for bicycle transport in the form of courtesy to the user.

The new rules take place at the time that the City tries to regulate applications to hail cabs and amid market dispute between taxi drivers and services like Uber.

Article 1 of the Ordinance on the cards says "is required to taxi driver available electronic means of payment to the passenger, as another service value of the payment option provided for individual transport paying passengers in car rental, equipped with metered" .

The ordinance also says that vehicles must be equipped with electric charger facility for mobile phones, tablets and notebook computers to be made available as a courtesy to passengers.

Taxi drivers are protesting against irregular passenger service to Sao Paulo (Photo: Tatiana Santiago / G1)

Taxi drivers are protesting against the Uber in Sao Paulo (Photo: Tatiana Santiago / G1 Archive)

The taxi driver who violate the ordinance may be subject to application of penalties prescribed by law in 10,308 of 1987, which regulates the monitoring of taxi drivers.

After the period of adaptation of 30 days, passengers can lodge complaints with the Department of Public Transportation dtpsac@prefeitura.sp.gov.br by email or by phone 2692-3302, 2291-5416 and 2692-4094.

The measure was adopted, according to the ordinance, taking into account that most passengers have credit and debit card, there is availability in the market of various equipment available to taxi drivers to allow the use of cards and also by the need to increase security in transactions.

 

Source: G1

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