You write taxi, you read Italy. The drama of a policy that hates competition

The numbers of an Italian disservice. New licenses, alternative services: the things that municipalities and the government could do, but on which politics holds back. Because we need to challenge corporations and the status quo. Luckily, help arrives from Europe

Elon Musk’s luck is that he arrived at Palazzo Chigi with a Tesla, with a company car, because if Musk had had the bad idea of ​​landing in Rome in another way to get to Piazza Colonna, he would have had less difficulty find a Space Shuttle rather than a taxi. You too will have noticed it, both walking through the big Italian cities, Rome and Milan in particular, and trying to move around these cities by renouncing to use the only possible means of locomotion that have become competitive to avoid being crushed in the subways magnificently besieged by tourists . The point is simple: taxis are no longer available. And the reason why they are no longer found comes from both good news and bad news. The good news is soon told. In Italy, tourism is increasing to record levels. It has already increased exponentially in the first months of the year (between January and February, according to Istat, the overall presences compared to the same two months of 2022 increased by 45 per cent, with a significant growth both in foreign presences, more 70 per cent, both of domestic ones, plus 28.8 per cent).