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Munich scraps taxi stand at the main train station: the taxi trade is on a collision course.
The conflict over the taxi stands at Munich Central Station is intensifying. While the city makes room for private drop-off and pick-up services, the taxi trade must vacate another central location. On October 20, the remaining taxi stands on Bayerstraße in front of the Le Méridien hotel Kiss-&-Ride spaces are to yield. Taxi-München eG sees this as another intrusion into the industry’s livelihood—and warns of the consequences for passengers.
“The taxi trade is maintaining service at the main station under the most difficult conditions. In response, additional stand spaces are being removed from it. Our drivers need visible, accessible workplaces. The MOR pushes them out of the passengers' line of sight,” explain the board members Thomas Kroker and Ertekin Kocer.
Hub for Travelers
For the cooperative, the site is an important hub for travelers and hotel guests. Its removal would make access to taxis more difficult, especially for older people, mobility-impaired passengers, and travelers with luggage. That taxis may continue to drop off passengers on the new areas, Kroker says, is not an adequate solution. He calls this an "answer to a question no one asked".
„An alighting option does not replace a taxi stand. Where should the vehicles wait for passengers? Where can travelers find a taxi? How should the on-site pickup work? MOR fails to provide a convincing answer on this point.”
The cooperative expects additional cruising traffic, conflicts over remaining stopping opportunities, and complaints from passengers, hotels, and other road users.
„The problems are pre-programmed. You can do away with a functioning taxi stand—the demand from passengers won't disappear because of it" so Kocer weiter.
Platform operators preferred?
The competitive conditions are also under criticism, because those who push the regulated taxi trade out of sight become a stepping-stone for the wild growth around Uber and Co., explain Kroker and Koce.
"Where illegal transportation and the circumvention of applicable rules take place, there must be strict enforcement. Instead, precisely the properly operating taxi companies have their taxi stands removed."
Taxi Munich calls for suspending the measure and working with the industry to find a viable solution. This includes preserving the existing stand space or an equivalent replacement in immediate proximity and within sight of the passengers. The board announces that it will continue to pursue the issue publicly and politically. Peaceful protest is also possible.
The central question remains, from the cooperative's perspective:
Content automatically translated."The MOR must explain how a reliable taxi service is supposed to work if it itself eliminates the necessary taxi stands."
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