Formalization and legalization of transport platforms is ‘in the air’

A few days ago, the Superintendency of Transportation issued a circular in which would be ‘intensifying the persecution’ of transport platforms. In this regard, Alianza In Colombia strongly rejected this administrative act, in which the control body asked the municipal and district authorities to put a magnifying glass and exercise more control over the drivers who provide these services.

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In this regard, the Deputy Minister of Transport, Carlos Eduardo Enríquez, assured that They are just exercising their usual control and at the same time working to find a middle ground with the applications. and that information should not be ‘distorted’.

The public official explained that this administrative act only It serves to reiterate the control measures that the Superintendency of Transportation must exercise. and to remind mayors and local governments of their obligations in this matter. These statements were made within the framework of the annual congress of the freight transport union, Colfecar, in the city of Cartagena.

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“She says to reiterate the control measures, it is something that the Superintendency of Transportation must do by law. It is to reiterate the obligation that the mayors have in the municipal transit authorities to control what is already happening with illegality and informality. I think that the message was handled poorly, the reiteration of the circular has been done on repeated occasions by the superintendent and it is good that we can clarify that this is a measure that the law requires us to insist on the mayors to comply with it,” he insisted.

Regarding a possible process of legalization or formalization of the sector, Enríquez explained that in the time left of the Government, that is, two years, they are looking how to move forward on the topic.

“With the Minister of Transport and the working team, what we are doing is that in this new dynamic of Congress we are looking carefully at whether a new bill on the sanctioning regime is going to be presented by the Superintendency, so that it has in detail all the judgment that the Minister has asked us for, not to incur in opening spaces that mistranslate a message today of what is needed in the country,” said.

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And he concluded by saying: “It is a sanctioning regime because it aims to strengthen the Superintendency in all types of transport in the country, not only in terms of platforms. That is why we have a pending dialogue with the Minister and surely with the presentation of the document we can discuss what this government is betting on.”

Paula Galeano Balaguera
Portfolio Journalist