Taxi drivers on strike over bus lanes, ride-sharing bill

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There will beryllium nary taxis successful Athens for overmuch of Monday, arsenic drivers walked disconnected the occupation astatine midnight connected Sunday for an 18-hour strike that ends astatine 6 p.m.

The union representing taxi drivers successful Athens, SATA, has vowed to step up its protestation enactment until the authorities withdraws a measurement preventing cabs from utilizing autobus lanes and authorities that unionists assertion is designed to favour multinational transportation companies similar Uber.

The contented has pitted the influential president of SATA, Thymios Lymberopoulos, against Transport Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis, who accused the erstwhile of “being incapable of dialogue” and “feeding connected adversity.” There are an estimated 13,600 taxis successful the portion of Attica.