Uber enters Tri-City

The American firm Uber, a "crowdsourced taxi service" has chosen the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot conurbation to become its third location in Poland. The company is starting operations in the Tri-City today, on June 25, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily reported. It is estimated that, Uber has around 200,000 Polish clients, servicing Warsaw and Kraków. The average waiting time in Warsaw amounts to less than five minutes, in Prague about 5.6 minutes and in New York 6.3 minutes, DGP pointed out. According to the daily, the start-up is valued at over $40 billion.