BY YESUF ENDRIS
ADDIS ABABA – Two ride-hailing companies, ZayRide and WEZ announced that they have submitted proposal requesting government to allow them provide the public with Code-2 taxi transport service.
Discussing ideas with the Ministry of Innovation yesterday, the two companies presented their proposal to the Ministry and requested for support to boost digital transport service, which the Ministry of Innovation has also pledged to support so.
Briefing the proposal, ZayRide Founder and CEO, Habtamu Tadesse said the demand of transportation service in Addis Ababa is soaring though 100-200 thousand cars are actively functioning right now.
“The price of gas is sharply growing. The cost of living is also growing in parallel .
Accordingly, transport service is becoming one of mind-boggling issues in the capital. For this reason, we would like to recommend the government to allow all Code-2 cars to deliver taxi service so as to make the price of transportation relatively fine,” he added.
Founder and CEO of WEZ taxi, Nardos Addis on his part said that the government should learn from foreign experiences. The rise of service providers has direct impact on addressing the growing transportation demand in the capital.
He said: “As most of automobiles are being used to transport only drivers, we need to make dual purpose system by certifying those automobiles to deliver taxi service as much as possible.”
State Minister of Innovation, Huria Ali also said that the government will consider recommendations coming from private and public sectors.
The Ethiopian Herald 6 August 2022
