He full of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) plans to approve this Tuesday a average increase of 3% in taxi fare of the Catalan capital, where They will keep the supplements as they are. Thus things, the flag lowering rate 1 (T1, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., on weekdays) goes from 2.50 to 2.60 euros and the price per kilometer, from 1.23 to 1.27 euros. The guild unions asked increases of between 5% and 7%, but Metropolitan Taxi Institutewhich calculates the increase based on the Sectoral CPI, substantially lowered its claims. Last year, taxi prices already increased by 5.6%.
Once the metropolitan entity gives its ‘ok’ to the new rates, the Generalitat price commission It will be the one that provides the last support that allows them to come into force in mid-December. What will not increase are the supplements, which are applied to trips to or from the airport, Sants station, Fira Gran Via from L’Hospitalet or the Adossat dock of the port; in vehicles carrying between five and eight passengersand in special nights (Sant Joan festival, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve). Remember: There is no longer a bonus for carrying suitcases, so they cannot ask them for any extra for the packages.
That of the cruise passengers
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The most notable rise is taken by rate 4 (T4), which is the one that lights up when a traveler goes from the Adossat dock to the El Prat airport. It is basically designed for cruise passengers and it goes from 39 to 45 euros, 15.4% more. The fixed price fare (T3) is also increased by 10% for trips between five and seven kilometers (+9%) and more than seven kilometers (+10%).
The Generalitat also plans to apply an increase in the intercity rate (T6 daily and T7 at night), which is what all taxi drivers who do not operate in the metropolitan area apply. For all of them, 2024 brings an increase of 2.6% on his travels. Taxi drivers from the 36 municipalities of the AMB apply rates one to four because it is considered that they form a single urban nucleus, but if they leave this perimeter that is when they turn on, depending on the time of day, six or seven. .