At midnight on Saturday, with two flights still to land (from Palermo and Verona), the arrivals area at Cagliari airport is "surrounded" by dozens of people waiting for taxis . A procession of vacationers (and a few commuters) stretches for a few dozen meters. A single but eloquent comment accompanies this: "Unacceptable."
Tourists arrive, and taxis are once again (almost) unavailable. Meanwhile, Uber, even though it can end up costing even more, is booming because, thanks to app-based booking, vacationers are guaranteed to find one.
"The service isn't working, but unfortunately, that's no surprise," thunders Alessio Mereu, a FdI city councilor and former traffic councilor. "The dual driver system ," introduced almost two years ago to address the lack of taxis during the summer season, " isn't producing the expected results . That's why it would have been appropriate to increase the number of licenses, as we were doing in the previous council term, licenses that we had, moreover, agreed upon with the trade union," he adds.
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