Benidorm increases its fleet of adapted taxis and places it above 6%

With the addition of two new 'eurotaxi' vehicles, there are already 14 licenses operating in the city

Benidorm has increased its fleet of adapted taxis to 14 vehicles after converting two ordinary licenses into eurotaxi licenses. This process of reconversion began last December with the agreement of the Eurotaxi Service Commission, which includes the City Council and the two associations of Benidorm sector, and has improved the percentage of vehicles adapted "above the barrier of 5%, which is the minimum limit set by Europe ", as informed the mayor, Toni Pérez. Specifically, with this enlargement has reached 6% and there will be seven Eurotaxi vehicles per shift, compared to the six there were until now.

The Eurotaxis can accommodate four passengers plus a person with functional diversity who travels in a wheelchair. In addition, these two new vehicles and a third that has been renewed "comply with the Euro 6 sustainability standard".

The mayor highlighted the "implication" of the taxi sector in increasing the fleet of adapted taxis, as well as the work they are developing in favor of accessibility from the councils of Mobility and Social Welfare, led by José Ramón González de Zárate and Ángela Cry

Pérez has indicated that "more and more people visit us who have difficulties, and the city is advancing and adapting to them both in the pedestrian area and in public transport, where we are at the highest level." In this sense, the proportions of adapted vehicles in Benidorm surpass those of other towns of similar characteristics, and even capitals.

The councillor of Mobility, for his part, has clarified that with this process of reconversion "we are not giving new licenses, but adapting two of those that we have already granted." In fact, by law, "Benidorm can not grant new taxi licenses until the census reaches 78,000 inhabitants."