France: French Railway to Buy 200 Taxi Licenses

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | October 9th, 2008 | Trackback

French railway company SNCF will try to resolve the dearth of taxis to meet incoming trains in Paris by buying 200 taxi licenses at full value from retiring drivers so it can have it’s own fleet to serve its customers. Even President Nicolas Sarkozy has complained about the difficulty of finding a taxi in the city (there are only 13 percent more taxis on Parisian streets today than there were in 1937), but the president of the main taxi union ridiculed the plan, saying no driver would sit and wait for hours for a fare at the train station. SNCF intends to begin the program next year.

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