An Uber driver has been attacked by several taxi drivers in Lagos.
55-year-old Luís Amara was kicked by the group on Saturday afternoon at around 6:30 p.m. outside Lagos train station.
The driver was collecting a group of Brazilian holidaymakers, was threatened by 4 or 5 taxi drivers and was kicked.
The incident was captured on a mobile phone and the police are investigating this, and other attacks in the region as Uber expands its coverage and taxi drivers remain aggrieved.
At the end of June, the head Uber for Portugal announced an expansion of the company’s coverage across the Algarve region after success in Faro, Vilamoura and Albufeira last year.
"People are moving to all parts of the Algarve, which is why we are going to make our presence in the region more solid and more convenient," commented Rui Bento, general director of Uber in Portugal.
In 2016, more than 750,000 tourists used Uber to travel in Portugal with the app being downloaded a million times with Uber currently supplying 3,000 thousand drivers and cars.
Parliament now has approved the second version of the law that will regulate the activity of Uber and similar app-based transport services.
Today's vote came after a previous version of the document was refused by the President of the Republic.
This latest proposal, which will go back for presidential approval, increases the tax that these companies will have to hand over to the State, from 2% to 5% of the gross total amount paid by the customer for the journey and clarifies a possibility for companies in the taxi sector to operate for an electronic platform.
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Hmm .... As with so much of Portugal's economy it is a favoured few who get a real licence or re-licensed (as with AL's) to do anything the generates profit. So good for Uber ! But we can all get dog and borehole / well licences as there is no profit in them; then discover none of our neighbours have bothered with being licensed.