Police and Cestur will bring to court a taxi driver who collided with Uber in Bavaro to avoid picking up tourists

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Santo Domingo, RD.

Tourism Minister David Collado described the change in public order in the country’s tourist centers as unacceptable in connection with a new attack by a taxi driver on a driver from the Uber transportation platform.

The minister said the leadership of the national police and the specialized tourist security force will bring to justice the driver responsible for the violent event that took place in Bávaro.

An audiovisual video uploaded to social networks shows that a taxi driver from one of the area’s unions crashed his vehicle into another car on the Uber platform to avoid boarding tourists in the area .

“Under no circumstances will we allow acts of violence that affect our tourism,” said Minister Collado in a brief press release.

On December 13, the Dominican government stopped the work of the transport company Uber in the airport environments, while the regulatory situation of “the whole company has not been clarified with the authorities”.

The National Institute of Land Transportation and Traffic said it is its competence and of the services platform to take all necessary steps to regularize the activities of its employees in the country, “to maintain order, peace and competence.”

“The government urged Uber representatives to cease all activities in airport environments and inform all employees of the need to not provide these services while the regulatory situation of the entire company has not been clarified with the authorities,” says he. that date and it happened after several violent arguments where the transport unions always attacked the Uber carrier.

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