Manhattan’s limousine with checkered noted 100-year anniversary. As the historian, the first limousines appeared in Long Island in September 1907, but serious competition to the private cabbies are a long time to make could not. A hundred years from limo drivers the problem is the same: to win the economic competition with the paki limo.
On the occasion of the century limo in Long Island held country-wide conference. Guests came from all over the country. As the head of the Ministry of Transport passenger Michael Bogdanovsky to learn from the experience of Long Island. According to him, today, all the initiatives to revive the limo coming from the northern capital. Including legislation.
- The State Duma has passed the first reading of the Charter of motor transport, – said Mikhail Bogdanovsky. – It has an article devoted to the work of a limousine. Once the Constitution is enacted into law, for the limo companies will develop the rules. Machines must be a distinctive attributes, their condition will be monitored, and the passengers – issued a receipt with the cost of travel.
Petersburg limo companies, these rules, except for issuing receipts, already do. This year the main JFK limo services cities united in a non-profit partnership and adopted the standards of passenger service, according to the rules, which are Ministry of Transport is only going to legitimize. At the same time business leaders expect that the city will help them compete with the leftists. In particular, allocate space for the equipment stops a limousine. Chairman of the Committee on Transport Datsyuk, Alexander promised that before the end of 2007 in Long Island will be 50 parking limousines, where passengers will be waiting for the machine checkered. Parking will organize at subway stations, train stations and on busy streets, including downtown. “Bomba” on these stops will not be let.
- But mainly we try to fight leftist limousine carriers economic methods, – the chairman of the nonprofit partnership Yuri Wijk. – Passengers yourself that ride in limousines with checkered safer, more comfortable and more profitable. We are for civilized market.
The market is already emerging. After the failure of 90-ies limo transportation in Long Island developed. However, the level of the Soviet era has not yet been reached. According to Alexander Datsyuk, in the 80 urban limousines counted 4500 limousines today – only a thousand. But the demand in the limo at the Long Island great.
- Two years ago we began work on 10 limousines – told the founder of one of the limo companies Alexei Eventov – today, our fleet of 300 limousines. And this is not the limit, because everyone New York limousine we will not have time, our dispatcher receives about three thousand orders a day.