A netizen posted that the cross-city fee was packaged as a "parking fee" of 80 yuan. * Morning News.
According to the Morning News, recently, Mr. Wang, a citizen, reported that he returned to Shanghai from Suzhou by taking an online car-hailing service, and was asked by the driver to privately charge a "cross-city fee" of 50 to 100 yuan three times in a row. On the same day, Mr. Wang finally confirmed with the driver** that he would not charge cross-city fees before the arrival of the fourth online car-hailing car, and then returned to Shanghai smoothly.
The existence of the cross-city fee is to make up for the loss of the driver, and there is a certain reasonableness. It is easy to run empty if you can't receive an order on the return trip, and the system settings of many online car-hailing platforms will not send orders to the driver once it detects that the driver's real-time location is not in the place of operation, resulting in the driver having to pay the tolls for the return trip. Without the "subsidy" of cross-city fees, drivers obviously do not earn much money.
However, it is not reasonable to let passengers pay, and it is not necessarily much farther than running from Jiading in Shanghai to Kunshan in Suzhou than in Shanghai, or even closer, and this difference in geographical significance is unfair to passengers who have to bear the costs incurred by the rules. Long-distance taxi itself is relatively high, and if you have to pay an air return fee, it will obviously greatly increase the cost of travel.
With the increasing effect of the Yangtze River Delta city, it can be expected that there will be more and more such things, and it has been the choice of many people to work in Shanghai and live in Suzhou. Surrounding cities, such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Jiaxing, etc., are tens of kilometers away and hundreds of kilometers away, and will face the same problem to a greater or lesser extent, and the high cost of travel will set up obstacles to the flow of people in the area. Naturally, such a status quo cannot keep pace with the pace of social development. Of course, high-speed rail is an option, but it cannot cover all areas at all times and cannot cope with the complex and changing needs of urban commuting.
The role of taxis and ride-hailing cannot be ignored. According to Article 22 of the Interim Measures for the Administration of Online Taxi Reservation Business Services jointly issued by the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security and other ministries and commissions, "online car-hailing shall engage in business activities within the licensed business area, and if it exceeds the licensed business area, the starting and ending points shall be within the licensed business area." In other words, if it is an order that returns after crossing the city, the destination is not illegal in the place where the business is licensed. Since the policy is allowed, the platform should not be too restricted, at least in cross-city operations. There are comings and goings, frequent flows, and everyone is like a family, so naturally there is no concept of cross-city.
If it is difficult to adjust the policy, it will take some time to balance the interestsSo whether to collect it, in what name, how to make up for the driver's loss, how to collect it needs to be clear and clear, not a confused account. Not to mention that drivers and passengers cannot be allowed to trade in private, ranging from 50 yuan to 100 yuan, so under what circumstances is it 50 yuan, and under what circumstances is it 100 yuan?What is the standard, and who will check it?Will there be a phenomenon of sitting on the ground and starting the price?It's all a problem. This can create a potential for disputes.
Citizens, drivers, operators, platforms, and regulators should all participate in the process of formulating rules, reflecting the public interest and taking into account the interests of both drivers and passengers.
*: Chao News.