{"id":233014,"date":"2019-02-01T06:59:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T05:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/?p=233014"},"modified":"2024-02-02T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T12:26:04","slug":"uber-halts-operations-in-barcelona-in-protest-against-new-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/en\/uber-staller-in-verksamhet-i-barcelona-i-protest-mot-nya-regler\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber suspends operations in Barcelona in protest against new regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_233015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233015\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/en\/?attachment_id=233015\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-233015\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ska\u0308rmavbild-2019-02-01-kl.-05.52.31-450x243.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"243\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-233015\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: uber.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>In protest against new regulations, the taxi service Uber is suspending its operations in the Spanish city of Barcelona.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The company writes this in a blog post on Thursday, titled &quot;Hasta pronto, Barcelona&quot; - roughly &quot;See you Barcelona&quot;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rules decided by the regional government in Catalonia are to introduce a minimum waiting time of 15 minutes between a taxi booking being made and a taxi customer being picked up. So-called VTCs, taxi assignment cars, are also not allowed to pick up customers on the street between trips and must return to their base after completing the assignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe obligation to wait 15 minutes to travel in a VTC does not exist anywhere in Europe and is completely incompatible with the immediacy of on-demand services, such as UberX,\u201d the blog post states.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, taxi companies are prohibited from informing the customer where the car in question is when the booking is made, which prevents the customer from getting to the car in question themselves. <\/p>\n<p>Companies risk fines of up to 1,400 euros per suspected violation of the new rules.<\/p>\n<p>Source: di.se<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I protest mot nya best\u00e4mmelser st\u00e4ller taxitj\u00e4nsten Uber in sin verksamhet i den spanska storstaden Barcelona. Det skriver bolaget i en bloggpost p\u00e5 torsdagen, rubricerad \u201dHasta pronto, Barcelona\u201d \u2013 ungef\u00e4r \u201dVi ses Barcelona\u201d Reglerna som det regionala styret i Katalonien beslutat om g\u00e5r ut p\u00e5 att man inf\u00f6r en minst 15 minuter l\u00e5ng v\u00e4ntetid mellan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1341,230,432],"class_list":["post-233014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-report","tag-barcelona","tag-taxi-travelguiden","tag-uber"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Uber st\u00e4ller in verksamhet i Barcelona i protest mot nya regler &#8211; Travel Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Uber st\u00e4ller in verksamhet i Barcelona i protest mot nya regler \u2013 L\u00e4s senaste nyheterna fr\u00e5n resebranschen p\u00e5 Travel Report.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/en\/uber-halts-operations-in-barcelona-in-protest-against-new-rules\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Uber st\u00e4ller in verksamhet i Barcelona i protest mot nya regler &#8211; 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