"The situation is not improving." By the end of the year, the shortage of taxi drivers in Russia will be 130 thousand people, and prices for travel will continue to rise.
The speaker of Yandex.Taxi, Russia’s largest operator, announced a driver shortage of 130 thousand people by December, which is why taxi rides will become more expensive and will continue to grow “by tens of percent” per year . According to Anton Petrakov, director of Yandex.Taxi for work with government agencies, the shortage arose and is getting worse due to tightening of migration policy and restrictions on the work of foreigners in the transport sector.