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4 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 7 SEPTEMBER 2025 INTERVIEW Aron Gatt: 'The problems in the cab industry have become too big to fix' THE President of the Light Pas- senger Operators Association (LPOA), Aron Gatt, warns that the problems facing the cab in- dustry are too big to fix. In an interview with MaltaToday, the lobby's president explains that the root of the industry's problems is the rapid rise in the number of drivers and cabs, facilitated by lax enforcement and abusive opera- tors. Gatt claims that instead of ad- dressing abusive operators direct- ly, the authorities skirt around the root of the problem by, among other things, punishing drivers with €500 fines for briefly parking their cabs on the street while on break. Speaking about the judicial pro- test the LPOA has filed against the government, Gatt states that this comes not after a failure to enforce the law, but after what he describes as collusion between public enti- ties and abusive operators. This, he explains, creates issues for law-abiding operators in many different ways. One example is the proliferation of inexperienced cab drivers, which makes insuring a cab a nightmare. Despite what seems like futility, Gatt says that the lobby continues its fight for justice. The cab industry is facing problems that are now too big to fix, warns Aron Gatt, president of the Light Passenger Operators Association. He tells Matthew Farrugia how lax enforcement and abusive operators are leaving law-abiding drivers to shoulder the burden.