AMMAN — Vice
President of the Syndicate of Owners of Taxi Offices, Internal and External
Travel, and Driving Training Centers Mohammad Al-Hadid said that that the
syndicate will not increase transportation fees despite the “huge and
continuous” rise in fuel prices.
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He told
Jordan
News that the syndicate “met with the Land Transport Regulatory Commission’s
(LTRC) director-general to discuss the conditions of drivers under difficult
circumstances and to demand monetary support for them”.
A “preliminary
agreement” was reached with the LTRC to allocate cash support to drivers, he
said, adding: “We demanded a daily subsidy of JD3, at a rate of JD90 per month,
to be paid to the driver directly.”
The syndicate
will hold a meeting at the Ministry of Transport on Tuesday, Hadid said, to
agree on the value of the subsidy, stressing that “we are still totally against
raising fuel prices, and we know that this amount will not improve much the
situation of drivers, but this is better than nothing.”
Hadid stressed
that “drivers are facing a difficult situation, made worse by the rise of oil
derivative prices. It is our duty to protect them and secure financial support
for them, so that they can at least provide food for their families.”
Taxi driver Abu
Eyad told
Jordan News that “providing cash support to drivers is
a good idea if it gets really implemented.”
“Drivers have
been going through difficult circumstances even before the COVID-19 pandemic,
and all they get is false promises that are not really met,” he said.
Many drivers
lost their jobs, he said, and “found that staying at home without work ... is
better than working as drivers. They spent days without earning a single penny,
and their tiny income went to paying gasoline and repairing broken down cars.”
According to
LTRC Director-General Tarek Habashneh, the proposal to grant some monetary
support to drivers “is now under study”.
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