Pre-paid auto, taxi stand proposal at Pune airport in limbo

Pune: Four months since the ball was set rolling to start an ‘official’ RTO approved pre-paid auto rickshaw and taxi stand at the airport, the process seems stuck in a limbo with authorities pointing fingers at each other.
The prepaid auto- taxi stand at the airport never really took off. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) had given permission to certain selected licensed drivers who were allowed to ply from the airport into the city for customer convenience - but there were complaints from commuters of overcharging and internal disputes among taxi drivers.
Finally, this issue was raised again in late June by the traffic department. On August 6, the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) passed an order directing the Deputy Commissioner Police (DCP) Traffic, the Regional Transport Office (RTO) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to sit together and sort out the details for a prepaid counter at the airport.
The existing taxis and autorickshaws that ply out of here have an airport insignia stamped on them. The taxi drivers at the existing stand said that there was an unwritten rule which allows them to ferry passengers only from the airport to the city but not vice versa.
08/12/07 Expressindia.com

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Categories: Airports Dec 2007