The Financial Times advises taxis to be as polite as … – Le Figaro

In an article in which he gives advice to Paris to become a perfect city, a journalist from the British newspaper highlights the politeness of drivers Uber in Paris and denounces aggression taxis.

Malpolis, dirty, aggressive, bad drivers … Critics constantly raining against most taxi drivers. And it’s not getting better since the arrival of UberPop. This service, which allows an individual to improvise taxi with his personal vehicle, crystallizes the tensions. So much so that transport car drivers with driver (VTC) are now subject to checks by the police as Marseilles, Nantes or Strasbourg or taxis themselves as in Paris.

behaviors that do not entertain once again missing the Financial Times, accustomed, like The Economist, French anti-shock one or ironic about a major life event in France. The British newspaper had deemed such “stupid” the editorial line of Charlie Hebdo, after the events of January 11, … before changing his mind. The latest example? Financial Times published an article on Friday that one of its journalists gives advice to Paris to become a perfect city. Among them: be polite.

The business daily takes such drivers Uber. “When you take a VTC here (in Paris, ed), you are surprised to meet a smiling driver who leaves the car to welcome you and offer sweets to your children, while taxi drivers are a crisis apoplexy at the mere sight of a blonde head. This is because the drivers are rated Uber “says Financial Times that does not fail to point out the ineffectiveness of” innumerable government advertising campaigns. ” And telling: “Someone told me that if the average score of a driver down below 3.5 stars, it was dismissed by Uber. They are Americans, they are radicals. “

The new position of the Financial Times will not fail to react taxi drivers already frustrated by the competition oppose them VTC drivers they consider “unfair”. But contrary to what the British newspaper, some taxis can be cheerful and polite. “The image of Epinal dirty and unfriendly taxi is statistically wrong!” Explained the Le Figaro Serge Metz, head of G7 Taxis, last November. Aware that the rise of the VTC has totally transformed the codes of his profession, G7 decided to adopt quality standards: a driver wearing tie, a small bottle of water available to the client, a mobile phone charger or carpet floor mats instead of plastic.