City Hall sends Uber to suspend mototaxi service in São Paulo

Uber announced this Thursday, the 5th, the start of the motorcycle travel service for passengers in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. For a lower price than UberX, Uber Moto is another travel option that can be done through the app. The City Hall of the capital of São Paulo said, however, that it will request the suspension of the service.

According to municipal management, Mayor Ricardo Nunes (MDB) determined the notification of the company Uber for the activity of paid passenger transport by motorcycle, a service not yet regulated in the municipality. The company claims that the app’s new mobility option has safety features for partner users and motorcyclists.

“At the request of the mayor, the Municipal Committee for Road Use (CMUV) will contact the company to request the immediate suspension of the activity, in addition to the due clarifications by Uber, since the company did not inform the São Paulo City Hall. Paulo about the beginning of the operation of this mobility option”, he said in a statement.

The orientation, according to the municipality, is that the service be suspended until a meeting is held between the parties to understand the dynamics of the activity and carry out studies and analyzes for the feasibility of implementing the passenger transport service by motorcycle.

Sought after, Uber had not yet taken a position on the decision of the City of São Paulo until the publication of this article.

Previously, the platform had informed that from this Thursday, passengers could make the request through the application in the same way that they already use the other modalities. Uber Moto arrived in Brazil in November 2020 through Aracaju, and is present in more than 160 Brazilian municipalities.

“Before landing in the two largest Brazilian cities, we spent more than two years studying the use of the product in different places and we evaluated the behavior that Uber Moto had in different Brazilian municipalities”, said Luciana Ceccato, director of marketing for Uber in Brazil.

According to her, in addition to routine displacements, there is a constant use of arrival and departure stations and terminals for buses, trains and subways. “This shows that this is a product that also complements the displacement of users who use the public transport network”, says Luciana.

Also according to Uber, all trips made – including Uber Moto – include, among other measures, background checks on partners and give users the possibility to share the license plate, driver identification and location with their contacts. on the map in real time.

The report entered the application and the same ride that cost around R$ 25 with UberX, between the neighborhood of Vila Constância and Metrô Carrão, both in the east zone of São Paulo, for Uber Moto the estimate was R$ 17 .

To register in the Uber application and drive in the new modality, the partner motorcyclist needs to have a definitive National Driver’s License (CNH) with observation of remunerated activity (EAR).