Cancun, Q.R. — Three companies have expressed interest in providing the state’s cabs with meters, a project that will start in Cancun. Quintana Roo taxi unions have been working with state officials more than two years to outfit cabs with electric meters.
Rubén Carrillo, the General Secretary of the Cancun Taxi Drivers Union says following talks, they are looking at installing meters in approximately 2,000 cabs. Those 2,000 cabs, he reported, will be a first phase to eventually install them in all municipality taxis.
Carrillo says taxi meters will “give users greater security both personally and financially.”
While he did not name the companies interested in providing the meters, he did say they are in talks to determine the types of meters required, mileage, distances and travel time, and their cost to the unions.
Next on the to-do list is the Quintana Roo Mobility Institute (Imoveqroo), the agency that regulates the state’s public passenger transportation services and the fees charged.
He says Imoveqroo is already aware of the advancement in talks with the companies interested in providing the meters. The initial phase of meter installations will be in Cancun taxis where around 2,000 of the city’s 8,600 cabs will be outfitted with proper taximeters. A possible start date for the long-awaited taximeter project was not given.
