2003News

Plastic for taxis

El Caribe reports that 27 taxi companies, members of the Federation of Taxi Operators (Fenotaxi), have opted to install veriphones to enable the clients to put the taxi rides on their credit cards. According to Jose Miguel, an administrator for Millenium Taxi, the new system was installed to give better service and to make service more accessible. Leonardo Mella, the president of the taxi federation says that the new system will allow more people to travel without having to worry about making change. Beside, this is the only business that caters to over 70,000 clients a day that did not use credit cards. Each taxi requires an investment and training. Soon, according to Leonardo, everyone will use it, except those that can’t read.