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The stoppage is to be upheld “until further notice,” and at 18h representatives will meet with Barcelona mayor

Ride-hailing companies suspended operations after vehicles became targets of attacks

Action was settled on after discrepancies over wanting to cut off access to Barcelona port

Incidents of aggression against vehicles reported around the city as cab drivers protest rival transportation services

Wednesday and Thursday set to be complicated days for travelers

Wednesday and Thursday set to be complicated days for travel

“Welcome to hell”: the transportation company faces tough opposition from the city’s taxi drivers

Mobile World Congress features a flying taxi, driverless cars and even a spaceship among the innovative solutions for future travel

Taxis won’t be available at Barcelona’s Sants station for 24 hours

This on-demand transport service has transported over 48,000 passengers, including locals and tourists alike

24h strike on Thursday aims to reduce number of licenses issued to transportation mobile platforms such as Uber and Cabify

Taxis in Barcelona are on strike to protest online platforms such as Uber or Cabify, which they consider to be unfair competition. Commuters and tourists at Sants, Barcelona’s main train station, or El Prat, the city airport, had to face long queues to take the bus or alternative transport methods because the taxi stands were completely empty. The strike, which started at 6am on Tuesday, will last for 24 hours. Up to 20,000 taxi drivers are expected to take to the streets in a big rally in Madrid, with more than 2,500 drivers from the Barcelona’s Metropolitan also attending. Taxi driver unions are threatening with more mobilizations on the 29th of June and are weighing the possibility of an indefinite strike starting on July 31st, just at the peak of the holiday period. They think their demands are being ignored by the government and that online platforms such as Uber are “destroying” their business.

The increasing number of licenses for “rental cars with chauffeur” caused strikes and demonstrations by hundreds of officially-licensed taxi drivers in several Catalan cities on Wednesday. According to representatives of the taxi transport sector, these licenses, also known as VTC, open a legal loophole for the unregulated activity of transport services through mobile apps like Uber or Cabify. In Barcelona almost a thousand taxi drivers marched through the city center to the Delegation of the Spanish Government, blocking traffic in the very heart of the Catalan capital, to demand a solution for the sector. Representatives of several taxi driver unions met with the Deputy Representative of the Spanish Government in Catalonia, Emilio Ablanedo, and asked him to communicate their demand for regulation of new mobile platforms to the Spanish Ministry of Public Works.