{"id":113,"date":"2015-02-09T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/02\/09\/how-san-antonio-is-trying-to-keep-uber-lyft\/"},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:02:00","slug":"how-san-antonio-is-trying-to-keep-uber-lyft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/how-san-antonio-is-trying-to-keep-uber-lyft\/","title":{"rendered":"How San Antonio is Trying to Keep Uber &#038; Lyft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December, San Antonio City Council passed new ride share ordinances that effectively\u00a0shutter Uber and Lyft on March 1st. The ordinances are\u00a0called the most restrictive regulation in the country. Why? Here&#8217;s what the ordinance does:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charges a\u00a0fee of\u00a0$175 permit fee for drivers. (Houston charges $11; Austin $0)<\/li>\n<li>Requires higher Insurance levels than taxis<\/li>\n<li>Require a 10-fingerprint background check for drivers<\/li>\n<li>Require third-party inspections for ride-share vehicles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another contingent of new Council Members, \u00a0Alan Warrick and Roberto Trevi\u00f1o,\u00a0wants to keep Uber &amp;\u00a0Lyft by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focusing on innovation<\/li>\n<li>Stressing that retaining ride share will show the city is modern and ready for professional Millennials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/local\/article\/Councilmen-working-on-keeping-Uber-Lyft-in-town-6069935.php\">San Antonio Express News<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/Supporters-detractors-pack-City-Hall-to-weigh-in-5950675.php\">My SA on the December Ordinance<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, San Antonio City Council passed new ride share ordinances that effectively\u00a0shutter Uber and Lyft on March 1st. The ordinances are\u00a0called the most restrictive regulation in the country. Why? Here&#8217;s what the ordinance does:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charges a\u00a0fee of\u00a0$175 permit fee for drivers. (Houston charges $11; Austin $0)<\/li>\n<li>Requires higher Insurance levels than taxis<\/li>\n<li>Require a 10-fingerprint background check for drivers<\/li>\n<li>Require third-party inspections for rid&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}