in Lyon, taxi anger rises in Paris | EUROtoday

At the top of a last gathering, Tuesday, December 3 within the early night, Place Bellecour, within the heart of Lyon, and after two days of sturdy and arranged mobilization towards the discount in affected person transport costs, the drivers taxi operators within the Lyon area have determined to cease their motion. “It is best to suspend our actions. We managed to attract attention and relaunch negotiations with the CNAM [Caisse nationale d’assurance-maladie]. We don’t want to be in the news for the wrong reasons. We must avoid slippages”confides Pascal Wilder, regional consultant of the National Federation of Independent Taxis.

This outbreak of fever comes from the will of the Barnier authorities, now on reprieve, to pressure taxis and medical transporters to barter financial savings measures with Health Insurance, beneath penalty of imposed worth reductions. Furthermore, a decree implementing the “Secu” finances for 2024 supplies {that a} affected person can now not refuse, besides in distinctive circumstances, shared transport, beneath penalty of getting to advance the prices and being reimbursed solely on the premise of shared transportation.

Around 100 autos parked at Place Bellecour in a final stand, whereas preparations for the Festival of Lights are in full swing within the streets of the capital of Gaul. “The colleagues came from most of the neighboring departments, Ain, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Isère. We succeeded in the mobilization. If we stop in Lyon for the moment, several of us have decided to join Paris on Wednesday, in support of the movement which started in the capital”proclaims Flavien Pretet, president of the Maison des taxis du Rhône.

Tire fires

More than 1,500 taxi drivers participated within the Lyon blockade on Monday, December 2, in response to the prefecture’s estimate, 2,000 in response to the organizers. The subsequent day, there have been nonetheless 400 in response to the prefecture, 500 in response to professionals, within the varied processions which prompted important disruption.

Early within the morning, drivers gathered on the motorway interchange connecting the A7 and A450 motorways south of Lyon, whereas to the east one other group blocked the A43 motorway in the direction of Grenoble, and that to the west the blocking of the exit from the Valvert roundabout disrupted the M6 ​​metropolitan highway (ex-A6). The processions met at noon, occupying the Lyon ring highway in each instructions. Gatherings then came about in entrance of hospital entrances.

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