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| Jesús Giménez: "This is an essential service and we must protect the safety of taxi drivers and users" | This morning, the deputy spokesman for the Municipal Group MC Cartagena, Jesús Giménez, has informed of the initiative that his training will take to the plenary session of the next day 30 so that the City Council subsidizes the installation of partitions in all the taxis of the municipality. Giménez has based his proposal on the essential role that this service is playing during the health crisis we are experiencing, an issue that makes it necessary to reinforce security measures for the benefit of both users and workers. In this way, MC Cartagena reinforces its commitment to the needs of a sector that is clearly unprotected and punished by the current Government, which, despite the repeated initiatives of Cartagena training, has not worked rigorously and planned for its viability in addition to be a necessary 'collaborator' so that only taxi drivers in the city of Murcia operate regularly at the future Corvera airport. "An essential service" In the current situation of the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Jesús Giménez has expressed that the taxi is an "essential service that is provided especially at this time to go to hospitals and health centers, so it cannot serve as a source of contagion and we must protect the integrity and safety of users and taxi drivers.

" The local administration will be required to complement "the measures that taxi drivers, who wear masks and gloves, have already taken," but it is necessary to go "one step further and those protection screens that the associations are already taking into account should be subsidized as public service by the City Council ". Jesús Giménez has ended by claiming this action calling attention to his need "even more so after getting that strategic plan for the taxi sector that MC opted for, the local Executive put it in a drawer back in September and we have I have never heard from him again ", to which we must add that the local and regional governments are responsible for the" assault on the regional taxi sector, leaving only the future Corvera airport for professionals in Murcia, and we say future because we hope that ever have flights.

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Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena