Taxi business booming as refugee arrivals soar

Some of the most crowded refugee camps on the European continent lie along the Austrian border. There are not enough government-arranged buses to deal with the demand from migrants for transport, so other businesses are filling the gap.

Taxis are now active along the border. However, anxious migrants have to pay large taxi fees if they want to leave the border.

Lining up for business and for life. Both taxi drivers and migrants are queuing up at a small border town, 240 kilometers away from Vienna, capital city of Austria.

With more and more migrants rushing to the border, people have to wait for several days before they can head to their next destination on the free buses provided by the Austrian government.

As winter approaches, many people cannot afford to wait. So they brace themselves to pay a large taxi fee instead.

"How much money to go to Vienna?"

"Are you going to Germany or other places?"

"We want to go to Vienna."

"420 Euro."

Migrants say that most of them want to go to Vienna. Taxi drivers charge them 100 Euro per person, which undoubtedly is a huge amount of money for them. The Austrian government has not stopped the taxi business, but advise migrants to wait patiently for the free buses.