Missed the last metro on a late-night out, or don't feel like walking home, perhaps for safety concerns? The taxi service in place in Brussels to help such people at a cheap rate is returning to the capital.
After a three-year hiatus, the night taxi service Collecto which serves people for just €6 will return to the Belgian capital on 15 May.
The service, which was very popular among residents, allows people to take a collective taxi throughout the region from some 200 pickup points situated beside STIB bus and tram stops for just €6 per person between 23:00 and 06:00 in the morning.
Collecto, overseen by Taxis Verts, was suspended at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. At the end of last year it was announced that Collecto would return though no concrete date was given.
Brussels Minister-President Rudi Vervoort has now confirmed that the service will resume on Monday 15 May.
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"Given the changed socio-economic context, the region had to make greater efforts to support the Collecto service, which had become indispensable for Brussels residents," his cabinet said in a statement.
As a result of the Brussels taxi reform, all drivers (both traditional taxis and platforms such as Ubers) can provide Collecto rides without being affiliated with the Taxis Verts central office, Vervoort's cabinet confirmed. The system was opened up to other drives in the hopes of making it more effective.
A total of 269,254 people were transported in collective taxis through 103,489 journeys in 2019.
