At the end of August, the Municipal Roads Authority decided tender for the lease of a taxi rank at the Central Railway Station. Seven companies applied, and support was provided to iTaxi. Since the beginning of November, for over PLN 22,000, he has been using the area on the side of Emilii Plater Street. There is space for six cars. Drivers impress customers directly at the entrance to the station.

Road workers explained that they decided to entrust the management of the stop to one corporation due to the introduction of order there. It’s been working this way for a decade. the idea is not new, not everyone is satisfied with this solution. One of the iTaxi employees joins the editorial staff of Kontakt 24. As you upload, this company offer to deliver threats from others. They were also supposed to be created by them.

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– From November 2, the taxi stand in this place should be manned by our drivers. Unfortunately, there is a problem with this, because as soon as we free up places, because someone leaves with a client, they are immediately replaced by other taxi drivers who not only take care of our area, but are also very aggressive – described Anna in early November.

Her account shows that the employees who support iTaxi collect data usually in the region of Rotunda, Novotel or the Palace of Culture and Science. There are also parking spaces at Emilii Plater Street, i.e. as a result, next to the parking lot. – For two days many of our drivers by these people exposed from bad. I heard that three cars had already been mauled, I checked one of them after the fact and it was indeed dented. Over the radio, colleagues warned that some people were getting threats that if any of us drove up there at night, they would attack with baseballs – especially with Contact 24 at the moment. According to her, one of the drivers also had the answer that “next time with the end in the trunk.”

Ms. Anna added that the police had been sought at the scene. – I used to work in another company that also had space for these places, but it obtained origins and now it can also be revealed in the same way. Recently, I returned there by car, but then I gave up these taxis, because I do not want to act in order to comply with the conditions – I stated.

According to iTaxi taxi drivers, the stalkers of their escapes resort to virtual practices. – These are people who often deceive customers, because they fish them out of travelers. From what I know, many of them don’t even have meters – he gives us the call.

We asked iTaxi to refer to this relationship. Her spokesman Maciej Ziętara confirms that helpers support us with problems. – a group of non-associated drivers who are dissatisfied with the normalization of the situation at the stop near the Central Railway Station and tried to intimidate drivers cooperating with us. We have already taken the appropriate action – defined.

The company stopped police incidents. – We still have a lot of support, both from the local police station located at the Central Railway Station, as well as from patrols that, if necessary, appear at the site of the error. The effects of this cooperation are already visible, because the number of incidents is decreasing day by day. There is also a group of our coordinators on site, the reason for which is to take care of the safety of our drivers and drivers – emphasizes the iTaxi spokesman.

It was also confirmed that several vehicles driving under the company’s banner were added. generally that it is responsible for non-affiliated drivers. – All events recorded by monitoring in the vicinity of the Central Railway Station will be evidence in the proceedings initiated by the police – announce Ziętara.

The spokesperson of the Railway Police Station, Artur Wojdat, informed us that any activities in this area are dealt with by officers of the Warsaw I District Police Headquarters. As Robert Szumiata from KRP Warszawa I informed us, the policemen intervened at the entrance after reporting received on November 2 and 6. – The first intervention concerns a collision between two vehicles: a Volkswagen and a Toyota. One of the drivers took the road of the other. They settled it with the Road Traffic Department. By the way, it was determined that one of the drivers probably had a rolled back odometer. The case is under investigation, he said.

It was also noted that the second intervention concerns the notification of the unauthorized operation of the iTaxi parking space. – orders to punish the driver with a ticket, but I am asking you to carry it out. The case has been changed to a fix – added.

On the other hand, we heard from city road workers that they have no possibility to interfere in this procedure. – We lease the land, but we have no rights that are controlled by who uses it and whether it transmits prohibited acts. In the context of taxi licenses and whether individual drivers fulfill their duties, inspections are carried out by the town hall. In an environment inconsistent with the principle of behavior, the intervention of the police – indicated Mikołaj Pieńkos, spokesman for the Municipal Roads Authority.

The capital city hall also leads that it does not have the right, by appropriate action in this matter. As Marlena Salwowska from the Press Department informs us, “the mayor of the capital city of Warsaw, as a licensing authority, has no competence to settle such matters.”

Officials have the ability to control taxi drivers, but the range is the correct low level. – According to the law of the licensing authority, it has the power to perform supervisory and control activities in relation to documentation, be subject to a transport license to the extent that they are applied by their regulations, to which the type of transport operation belongs – be subject to.

– The licensing authority does not have the competence to settle cases in the field of application and verbal plain on the taxi driver. Due to the necessity, it is necessary to submit a report to the investigation – Salwowska reserved.