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Where: El Dorado County, CA (Sacramento area)
The Partnership: With Lyft & Uber
The partnership benefits:
A Florida appeals court ruled that information collected by the County for ride share companies operating at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is subject to open records.
How did we get here? Taxi companies requested the ride share data from the county under open records laws. The county said the data isn’t subject to open reocords. The taxi companies sued. The lower court said aggregate number of pickups and the fees paid were not trade secrets.
2 Reasons the appellate…
As of January 1, 2018, ride share drivers in California cannot drive with a blood alcohol level above 0.04 if there is a passenger in the vehicle.
Desert Sun News | Happy New Year, here are your new California traffic laws
The business: Startup Circulation
Business model: offering non-emergency transportation to medical appointments utilizing existing ride share companies
Regulatory/Legislative: Transportation services for state managed health care plans / insurance regulation
What other ride share/health care partnerships are there: Lyft partners with CareMore Health Systems
Is there data to support it? Data shows it reduces wait times by 30% and transportation costs by 1/3
Wisconsin state representative Lisa Subeck has filed LRB-0964 to move ride share driver licensing back to the local level.
The impetus? Ride Share drivers accused of sexual assault
When did WI pass statewide ride share law? 2015
WKOW | State lawmaker wants cities to license Uber and Lyft drivers
San Francisco City Council is working to adopt ride share loading zone pilot program in 8 neighborhoods.
3 Policy Reasons for/against ride share loading zones:
ABC 7 News | San Francisco considers Uber, Lyft pickup zones in some spots
Taxi Cab companies in Philadelphia are joining forces to:
The local governmental entity: Central Contra Costa Transit Authority
The local ride share proposal: To save costs of running a standard 40 foot bus in difficult to navigate residential areas, the Transit Authority is implementing a “on-demand option for commuters heading to BART”
How will the new local government ride share work in the East Bay? 6 month pilot program with TransLoc, a transportation company
San Jose Mercury News | East Bay bus agency to launch Uber-like ‘on-demand’ service
Where is this happening? Arizona
The issue: How to get to dead-beat parents who don’t have child support, but have income that is not subject to automatic wage garnishments as an indepdent contractor.
12 News AZ | Parents frustrated by ‘deadbeat’ ride-share drivers not paying child support
City: West Sacramento
The company West Sacremento is partnering with: Via
How ride share will fit into the city’s public transit system:
The city’s policy goals: