Ministry and Yandex Taxi Boost Child-Friendly Taxi Access
The Ministry of Transport, in collaboration with Yandex Taxi, has developed and approved a roadmap aimed at improving accessibility, comfort, and safety for taxi rides with children for passengers, according to the ministry's press service.
Consensus
- The Russian Ministry of Transport and Yandex Taxi jointly developed and approved a roadmap.
- The roadmap aims to improve accessibility, comfort, and safety of taxi trips for passengers with children.
- The plan includes increasing the number of vehicles with child seats.
- The plan includes training drivers for transporting families with children.
- An experiment is underway in Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, and Chelyabinsk to provide discount promo codes to large families for taxi rides.
- A subsidy system based on the experiment's results may be introduced in other regions of Russia.
Points of divergence
- The taxi aggregator promised a discount for passengers who experience excessively long wait times, with the discount potentially reaching up to 30%. — vesti
Coverage (2 sources)
- Ministry of Transport plans to increase accessibility of trips with children — Вести
- Ministry of Transport together with "Yandex Taxi" developed and approved a roadmap aimed at improving accessibility, comfort... — ТАСС (Telegram)