AMMAN —
Vice President of the Syndicate of Owners of Taxi Offices, Internal and
External and Travel Agencies, and Driving Training Centers Mohammad Al-Hadid
expressed his dissatisfaction with the
Greater Amman Municipality’s (GAM)
failure to pay the fuel subsidy to taxi drivers in Amman, according to a local
news outlet.
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Hadid said on
Tuesday that taxi owners in Amman are complaining about the fact that they have
not received the subsidy allocated by the government for public transport,
after more than three months have passed since the first installment of the
subsidy — totaling JD300 per taxi driver — was supposed to have been disbursed.
The
municipality, he said, is waiting for next year’s budget allocation to disburse
the subsidy retroactively for the previous six months.
“Taxi owners do
not want raised transportation fees,” Hadid said.
However, the delayed payment of the subsidies is not
the only difficulty the sector is facing. He called for investigations into the
problem of unlicensed rideshare apps, which impact the demand for taxi rides.
The vice
president also asked the Land Transport Regulatory Commission to investigate
why GAM has not disbursed the subsidies, in light of the difficult living
conditions that many Jordanians — among them taxi drivers — face.
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