Uber: the private driver that citizens like but taxi drivers don't like

Thanks to the increase in petrol prices, traffic restrictions to limit pollution and public transport that is not always efficient, the alternatives for city mobility are becoming more and more numerous and diversified. a year landed in Italy with a team made up of 2/3 women who, through an app available for Apple and Android, connects passengers with drivers of luxury rental vehicles.

You will think the price is unaffordable, but you are wrong. Seeing is believing: using the promotional code "alfemminile" you will have 20 euros of free credit to use immediately. Despite the complete and quality service, fares are often lower than those of taxis. And in fact the taxi drivers did not take the novelty very well and, on the contrary, they called strikes and protests contesting unfair competition.

"The thing that regrets is that there has never been a confrontation to understand how to reach a meeting point and to be able to possibly evaluate a collaboration", says Elena Lavezzi, Uber Community Manager. "Finding ourselves in a situation bordering on the reasonable and being alone in this" battle "for innovation, we appeal to the opinion of Milanese citizens, our users and not, to show that Milan wants Uber at all costs and that it is now a service to which the city no longer wants to give up. Hosting the "EXPO 2015, it would be a real contradiction that Milan would remain the" only big city in the world without Uber ", concludes Elena Lavezzi.

And precisely to claim the right to be there Uber has launched the #IoStoConUber campaign and a petition to be signed (WHO) to say enough to these injustices, which have intensified in recent months, and to ask the Mayor Giuliano Pisapia to support Uber for the good of Milan and its citizens.

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