The transport app Uber is now completely legal in London
Support for the controversial ride-hailing app Uber continues to grow in Europe. If the European Commission already stated that it was necessary to respect new businesses and ideas in the field of transport that implied an improvement of the service for the client, it is now the transport authority of the London capital that ensures that Uber acts legally legalAt least in Britain. A real blow to the drivers of London's charismatic black cabs, who see how this application manages to gain a foothold in the sector.
Thus, Transport for London, in charge of governing transport in London, has published a statement in which it can only affirm that the application Uber is within the law. Something that comes after the analysis of a curious concept in which the protagonist is the taximeter Or rather, the absence of it in Uber cars And it is that the application is not considered to act as such, although it also works to calculate the price of a trip. In this way, they do not violate the law that states that taximeters can only be used by taxis, so there would be no reason to judge or penalize Uber
Of course, this does not mean that the problems have ended for the media application. And it is that Transport for London has decided to refer this issue to the High Court of London , which presumably will take a long time to give its verdict regarding the problem of the legality of Uber and the issue of taximeters. Even more so when there are pending cases of taxi driver associations that have denounced the Uber drivers for carrying out criminal actions when providing service with this application to calculate rates. Again, something that can only be associated with taximeters and, therefore, with taxis. Issues that, in reality, will only delay the decision of the British High Court of Justice and get these drivers in trouble, but not the application itself
Therefore, Uber continues to operate in the British capital, despite protests that took place in different European capitals on the 11th, with strikes included , at the hands of licensed taxi drivers. Some protests that Uber stoked by offering discounts of up to 50 percent in the modality of Shared rides on the same day. And there are several voices that affirm that all this commotion has served as a promotional campaign for the transport service, achieving an increase in user registration on same day of the strike. All one in his favor to make himself known, despite the notable difficulties he must face. For now, we will have to wait several months to find out if the High Court of London finally declares the Uber service legal Meanwhile, in Spain the dissatisfaction continues among the taxi sector, who defend their work as it is governed by the license and their approved vehicle, far from what is happening with the drivers and cars of Uber
