The popular ride-sharing service announced that it’s offering its services in several suburbs, but still faces legal hurdles to get into the Rose City.
The popular ride-sharing service announced that it’s offering its services in several suburbs, but still faces legal hurdles to get into the Rose City.
Although Uber says it’s simply expanding into new markets, the move could intensify pressure on Portland City Hall to join what the cutting-edge upstart and its users consider an urban-transportation revolution.
Uber’s expansion into Beaverton, Tigard and Gresham, all bordering Portland, means that many of the company’s drivers will be ferrying passengers through the city.
Residents still can’t use Uber’s smartphone app for rides that originate in Portland. But nothing in the law prevents Uber’s drivers from using their own cars as de facto taxis to pick up passengers in other cities and take them into Portland.
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