Several hundred taxi drivers begin slowing down or blocking access points to the Lyon metropolitan area to protest against an agreement being negotiated which would see a new, lower tariff for transporting medical patients and an obligation to provide 'shared taxi services'.
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00:30We arrive from Clermont-Ferrand, we are here to make our voices heard against the decision
00:43of the CNAM to reduce our income by 40% today on health transport and in fact we are
00:50below our profitability threshold so there is no company that can survive this, so it
00:54is the announced death of half the taxis in France, about 30,000 people.