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Users want alternatives to transport, which often fail or that take a long time to arrive in Lisbon. Platform has discounts.
Come to Lisboa It is not easy. For many people who study or work in the capital, and especially if they live outside the city, the trip takes hours in many days.
Na Southern margin The situation is more complicated. The public transport network is not enough. Even having buses (carris), trains (fertagus) and boats (transtejo/softlusa), complaints multiply and passengers want alternatives.
One of the alternatives will be to enter a Uber. The company will “enter balances “ Next Monday, June 2: half the price on the trip, for those who want to go from the south bank of the Tagus River-Alcochete, Almada, Barreiro, Moita, Montijo and Seixal-to Lisbon.
Uber vehicles with this 50% discount (up to 2 euros per trip) They will not cross the river. Will take the passenger to the 22 rail and river stations From the southern bank – which, these yes, make connection with the capital.
The discount will be valid during the month of June. Will have the designation Uber Commute.
The company tells what the idea is to have a “cleaner, less congested and environmentally responsible” city, through “shared and multimodal” mobility solutions focused on electrification, since all vehicles involved in this project are electrical.
Mass Carris criticizes. Administrator Rui Lopo recalls that Uber is not a public transport company and warns that this is a “extended operation of greenwashing” – Marketing practice in which the company appears to be more sustainable or environmentally friendly than it really is.
In addition, “they can aggravate the mobility problem of people, as they will certainly generate more congestion ”.
Francisco Vilaça, general director of Uber Portugal, denies this version. And warns that “there is a perception common There is much more TVDE than in reality exist”, Ensuring that the Top time that doesn’t even reach 25% of total uses.
Uber Commute may be applied to other areas of Portugal later.
