In Bari there are few taxis. Almost a rare commodity. The “white car” emergency is becoming increasingly unsustainable. But for a long time now. And when some tourists describe the taxi situation in Bari they don’t beat around the bush, they don’t mince words: “The service is terrible”, says a tourist who visited the city only four days ago tersely on the Paytourist platform. She is echoed by another visitor who says: “There could be more cars”. But that is not all. Some speak, between the lines, of having also been deceived by some taxi drivers. They talk, always venting in the reviews, of “an unclear communication of the rates”. Or rather than “a request for a flat rate of 15 euros even to travel a few kilometres”.
The disapproval towards the service and the category of “taxi drivers” is therefore clear: “Tourists – says the tourist indignantly – are not chickens to be plucked”. Taxis are a service that constitute a necessary alternative to public and private means of transport; especially in recent times, it is increasingly difficult to find available ones. Fewer and fewer taxis, fewer and fewer vehicles available for citizens and tourists, who remain crowded at the exits of airports and metro stations. Some images remain imprinted of long queues outside of passengers arriving at the Karol Wojtyla.
