If you want to go to city, today, you'll have to reserve an hour more than usual, as hundreds of taxi drivers gather in and around Bolte Bridge in and around the city center, protesting the march. And now there is a constant flow of other taxi drivers driving into the city for solidarity!
Right now, open the city of googlemap, and nearby are all red, that is, traffic is very congested.
And this kind of blockage in the short term will not get any relief!
All you see is because of today's Melbourne taxi parade, protesting against goverment's lowering of taxi industry standards.
As you all know, taxi drivers have just protested over the popularity of uber.
The march comes as goverment prepares to lower taxi entry standards and sharply cut the threshold for taxi licences in order to increase competition and legalise companies such as uber.
But it's not worth the business license that has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars!
For example, this uncle, like the picture below, has been in the taxi industry for 20 years and has not taken a day off during this period. He bought two taxi licenses for a total of $5,500000.
And now because of goverment's move, he's paying so much for nothing, he's naturally panicking. There are plenty of taxi drivers like him.
At 10.50 a. M., there were already 200 taxi license holders stuck at the junction between Spring and Bourke st.
And Parliament.
They held up the slogans of FAIR GO FOR HARWORK VICTORIA and vented their discontent with goverment!
However, many members of the public also expressed dissatisfaction with the marchers, especially those commuters going to the city. A lot of people got stuck in the road for more than an hour before they got into city..
Now that they are slowly driving to Bolte Bridge, there is a big jam in the road. If you want to get into City, please take a detour.
Melbourne's netizens are also divided on the parade:
"unsympathetic to them, the Uber drivers arrived faster and more courteously than they did. And knowing how to get to the destination, the car is cleaner and the fare is cheaper. "
"for me, most people prefer to share driving companies (such as uber), which doesn't care about politics at all. As long as the service is good, everyone will use it. "
"Ah, Victoria, the home of crime and protest! Keep working. "
In short, this parade will continue for a long time, everyone in and out of the city must plan ahead of time to avoid congestion!