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City: San Francisco
The nuisance issues related to ride share: traffic congestion, blocking traffic lanes while picking up passengers, blocking bicylce lanes, double parking
NYTimes | San Francisco Investigating Whether Uber, Lyft Are Public Nuisances
The city pursuing fees on ride share vehicles at its airport: Juneau, Alaska
What fees are Juneau’s airport board proposing?
What fees do taxis pay at Juneau’s airport? $150/ year per vehicles without any additional ride fee
St. Louis Post Dispatch | Juneau airport considering fees for Lyft, Uber rides
In repsonse to statewide rideshare regulations, Missouri’s Taxi Commission lowered these taxi regulations to provide parity:
State: Nevada
The 2 ride share provisions that Nevada House has included in the state ride share bill:
Las Vegas Review Journal | Bill could force Uber, Lyft out of Nevada
City: San Fracnisco
The proposed fee: a fee on all ride share trips to help pay for congestion management efforts
Is the per trip fee unique to San Francisco? No Massachusetts has a 20 cent per trip fee
Bay City News | San Francisco Patch | City May Impose Fee On Uber, Lyft For Traffic Congestion
Airport: SFO (San Francisco)
The fee placed on ride share at the airport: an airport fee of $3.80 paid by the rider
Total fees since late 2014: $39 million
What entity administers the fee? Its a 3 step process that works like this:
State: Georgia
The legal claim giving rise to the lawsuit: taxi drivers claimed that the medallions they must purchase are diminished in value by the statewide ride share statute
The Georgia Supreme Court: “taxicab drivers do not have a constitutionally protected “exclusive right to provide rides originating in the city limits which charged fares based on time and mileage.”
WABE Atlanta NPR | Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Law Allowing Uber, Lyft Services
City: San Francisco
The municipal ordinance’s purpose: traffic safety & congestion
The traffic woes the ordinance wants to cure:
The muncipal ordinance proposal to begin as a pilot program icnluding:
The Court: The European Union’s highest court
The issue- is ride share a platform or a transportation company? Legal pundits expect the court to rule that ride share companies are transportation companies.
What will be the impact? Stricter regulations apply to transportation companies
Why are pundits now paying attention to this? “An influential advisor to the court, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, has published his opinion on the case” and that opinion is not good for ride share.
A loophole in New York’s statewide ride share law allows Level 1 sex offenders to be ride share drivers.
The loophole is triggered by this statutory reference: U.S. Department of Justice National Sex Offender Public Website. Any person listed on this website cannot serve as a driver. However, this list does not include level 1 sex offenders.
A bill has been filed to close this loophole.
News 12 Long Island | Loophole could allow sex offenders to work for Uber, Lyft