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As taxis hold their day of protest dedicated to Uber, the mobile transportation service will offer free rides to new subscribers on Tuesday.

Uber announced Monday evening it will offer two free rides to each new subscriber on Tuesday, a day of protest declared by the province’s taxi group.

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Uber is a mobile application that allows passengers to find taxis, or drivers of personal cars, and to request a lift. With the UberX and UberXL service offered by the company, people use their personal cars to give people rides for a fee. The company sets the rate for the rides, which are generally cheaper than rates offered by taxi companies, and drivers keep 80 per cent of the fares.

All new subscribers who ride UberX and UberXL for the first time Tuesday will get two trips of $15 each, said Jean-Christophe De Le Rue, senior communications associate, Canada for Uber. Uber will also put a cap on all surge pricing (whereby the company raises prices when there are not enough available drivers), and it will forgo the 20 per cent service fee it charges drivers in the hope of encouraging more drivers to offer lifts.