Connexion will chase Uber – nrc.nl

CEO of Connexion Bart Schmeink Photo ANP / Koen van Weel

transport company Connexion goes this year to drive around with their own street taxis in Amsterdam. That left CEO Bart Schmeink this morning to know to BNR.

It is no regular taxis “where you as taxi will be waiting in a pile until someone” explains Schmeink the radio station. Publish in the third quarter of this year Connexion known what it will look exactly. The carrier will start in Amsterdam and the project aims to eventually perform throughout the country.

Connexion via contract carriage (AWBZ and WMO transport) already a major player in the taxi industry, but now wants “other products in the market turn. ”

This news follows the letter to parliament of Mansveld which will allow more innovations in the taxi industry and a large number of rules to abolish. The director of Connexion is “extremely positive” about these changes, according Schmeink fits with major changes in the taxi world.

“Uber shows us that. I think it’s much vraagafhankelijker, demand is more focused and that people with apps much easier to manage their own mobility. The traditional taxi product that we have now, or the traditional public transport, the coming years will therefore disappear. “

Also, the taxi industry is happy with the proposals of the Secretary of State. Hubert Andela KNV Taxi late to the NIS that with it a demand for mobility measure.

“This desire of customers need to be addressed. That public transport can not, so the taxi industry can play a major role. By unnecessary rules that take away could be easier. “

Andela is less enthusiastic about the intention of Mansveld to delete the exam skills as part of the operator’s license.

“That is the training of taxi drivers. We think therefore the number of adventurers on the market will increase. Therefore, we are not there. “

government parties PvdA and VVD have responded positively to the plan of Mansveld, reports news agency ANP. Labour MP Duco Hoogland agrees that there is more room for experimentation.

“At the same time there are clear rules to keep cowboys from the market. These proposals are a step in the right direction “

According to the Dutch VVD Barbara Visser avoid taxi because the prices are too high and the choice limited. She is positive that innovation is encouraged but think additional lines should be deleted

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