Earlier, deputies adopted amendments introducing a single visual style of cars.
Adopted last week by St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly law on common cab standards can significantly increase the prices of carriers from September this year, the market participants told the Delovoy Peterburg.
In particular, the managing director of a large online cab and carsharing service is sure that the cost of long trips may increase by 30% and short ones - even two times. At the same time, he predicts that passengers will now travel shorter distances less.
The expert also says that the transition period of five years for repainting cars, wrapping them with white film or getting a license - it is not difficult and not very expensive, compared to the same cost of the MTPL, but the main problem - just the quality control of cabs on the roads.
The fact is that now the entire market mostly works on "part-timers", and if they are blocked, the prices of transportation will definitely increase, concluded a market participant.