Ercan and Larnaca Airport - Taxi and Transfers

Erkankilim


Joined: 12/06/2007
Posts: 40

Message Posted:
12/07/2007 19:56

Hi,



I just want to mention about new law, which is very crazy, New law about Taxis and Transfers.



will stop you to go Larnaca or Ercan airport to pick your friends!

Also their aim to stop travel agents to carry their customers with their 7 seat cars. So i think we have to do protest.



Taxi people want to stop everyone to go airport I think and charge fortune to people.

pilgrim



Joined: 11/05/2007
Posts: 1404

Message Posted:
12/07/2007 20:44

Hi not exactly sure, what does new law prohibit?

pilgrim



Joined: 11/05/2007
Posts: 1404

Message Posted:
12/07/2007 20:46

Hi not exactly sure, what does new law prohibit?

ttoli


Joined: 24/03/2007
Posts: 1172

Message Posted:
12/07/2007 21:30

Report from this weeks Cyprus today, they have passed a law making it illegal to collect anyone from Ercan who isn't a blood relative(Yes really!!!), in essence the licensed taxi drivers are losing trade, so some 'expert' has foolhardily decided that you can no longer collect a hire car at the airport, that tour operators cannot collect holidaymakers by coach and that you have to prove that the person that you are collecting is a relative, short of roadside DNA tests, really can't see the police implementing this one.

Note this is for Ercan only as they have no power over Larnaca

BILLY


Joined: 15/01/2007
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
13/07/2007 00:29

The law states that drivers will face 50 penalty points and up to 130 ytl fine if found flouting the law.

Enforcement however has been put on hold because of complaints from the tourist industry.

Bradus


Joined: 25/02/2007
Posts: 2641

Message Posted:
13/07/2007 00:38

Yes I too read about this.If its true (surely it can't be) it sounds so riduculous and will do an awful lot of damage. Holiday companies will start to fly into Larnaca and this could spell the death of CTA. Picking up hire cars from the airport is also an essential requirement for many villa rentals. Won't it hit the tourist trade the very thing its trying to promote? It is an idiotic law and all that was called for was the tightening up of existing laws accompanied with more surveillance and better controlled carparking. Lets hope its been interpreted wrongly.

desert rose


Joined: 18/06/2007
Posts: 64

Message Posted:
13/07/2007 09:43

Why? my god that is a very odd law....



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Littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
13/07/2007 10:15

If you were enterprising you could set up a blood test station so you coud take samples off people picking up and those wanting to depart to ensure they are blood relatives visa ve the new law.



Will messsers talat and denktash be collected by taxis from the vip lounge now or continue to be collected by goverment limos?

renelapin



Joined: 19/05/2007
Posts: 136

Message Posted:
13/07/2007 13:12

One more bad joke. No chance to get it performed.

Bradus


Joined: 25/02/2007
Posts: 2641

Message Posted:
13/07/2007 18:54

renelapin

Did you get sorted out with your lawyer?

namus


Joined: 23/06/2007
Posts: 74

Message Posted:
13/07/2007 19:41

TRNC law and policy makers eh? You could not make it up.



The gov is pretty good on property law though.

Notsoboredhw


Joined: 15/03/2007
Posts: 1254

Message Posted:
14/07/2007 01:03

I think you may all have been wound up on this one!!! Somehow I dont think they would want to impose such a law - restricting holiday makers/family/friends from being transported from Ercan Airport - is someone having a laugh at our expense!!!

Bradus


Joined: 25/02/2007
Posts: 2641

Message Posted:
14/07/2007 01:30

Unfortunately BHW,

as silly as it sounds it true. Initially I dismissed it as being nonsense but a literature search proved it to be accurate. I have read newspaper articles and gone as far as contacting people in the TRNC who regularly pick up from the airport and it is creating big problems. Seems to me that the TRNC need some no nonsense women to take control of things. Are you game?

B&BLondon


Joined: 31/01/2007
Posts: 64

Message Posted:
14/07/2007 22:27

perhaps messers talat and denktash should read all the reasons people using this forum have come up with about dropping tourist numbers and consider just how disastrous this law could be for TRNC



Tour operators will pull out of TRNC altogether, with advertising restrictions, escalating flight prices, and now a coach can't pick up the arrivals - how can they offer a 'package holiday'?



How about if some enterptising person sets up a bar just outside the airport, so everyone takes a taxi, then two miles down the road, meets their hirecar rep?

Erkankilim


Joined: 12/06/2007
Posts: 40

Message Posted:
15/07/2007 11:10

Hi Again,

Unfortunality its True and Not a Joke,



If we not do something, When parlement open in September the low will be registered, Now Parlement is closed ( When they Work ?)



So until September we have to do Something, Because Those Stupid Politics, Will Cause problem with this low, Can you imagine all, Your Friend will come from England and you will go to collect from airport, and police will stop you!



Cant be anywhere in the world not acceptable,



Also Not Its not for Only Ercan, Anywhere, Low Not telling airport.



Low Says Clear,

You cannot take someone into your car who is not your realitve from 1st blood.



I must tell you who Push this Low, Taxi people so Protest them!!





I think We must get together, English Turkish all and walk to Nicosia president house! with pankarts,



Belive me, I am really Fed up with this gov!!



Have a nice weekend.