You have to recognise that Ada Colau enjoys one virtue above all the others which, certainly, she has: her enormous capacity to disappear from the map, to become invisible when there's any problem in the city. Either she's not around. Or she gives no opinion. Or both at once. Some adviser must have told her that ambiguity gives votes and that within months of the municipal election, it's best for her to look the other way from the taxi conflict, to avoid bothering taxi drivers, VTC workers [for rideshare firms like Uber] or, simply, any Barcelonan. Nothing is ever her fault. What's her opinion about the solution to the conflict? We don't know. Beyond holding the Catalan government responsible for still not having reached an agreement. It would greatly help to know her position, since then there would be proposals from the Catalan government, the strikers and the city council on the table.
This Monday could see major chaos in Barcelona after the assembled taxi drivers rejected the ministry's proposal to set a minimum limit of at least fifteen minutes to book rideshare vehicles, which could be lengthened locally by city councils. It's clear that with this action the government is already making a difference between taxis and VTC drivers. The taxi drivers believe fifteen minutes to be too few and initially proposed 12 hours, then six hours and now we don't know exactly what. The differences are vast, but what's certain is that the ministry doesn't have much room for manoeuvre if it doesn't want to end up in the absurd situation that the VTC licences end up in a dead end.
Taxi drivers have now spent days occupying a thoroughfare as important as Barcelona's Gran Via and there's no hint that there's a solution to the conflict imminent. This Monday, it could spread around the whole of Catalonia if the union's forecasts end up coming about. Great patience will be needed this Monday, since travel could become much more complicated and the main routes into and out of the capital could be a true bottleneck.