{"id":133,"date":"2015-03-04T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/03\/04\/uber-update-new-ride-share-regulations-on-the-agenda-for-san-antonio\/"},"modified":"2015-03-04T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:05:00","slug":"uber-update-new-ride-share-regulations-on-the-agenda-for-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/uber-update-new-ride-share-regulations-on-the-agenda-for-san-antonio\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber Update: New Ride Share Regulations on the Agenda for San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After passing restrictive local regulations that could cease\u00a0Uber, Lyft, and ride share operations. San Antonio is proposing revisions that, if approved Thursday, would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>strip\u00a0away insurance requirements\n<ul>\n<li>no longer require excess coverage of $2000,000 when the driver has no rider\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>maintains commercial liability coverage at $1 million when there is a rider in the car<\/li>\n<li>no longer requires an additional $1 million in coverage for uninsured or underinsured motorists<\/li>\n<li>no longer requires $50,000 in comprehensive collision coverage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>ease\u00a0the permitting process\n<ul>\n<li>random drug testing for ride share drivers<\/li>\n<li>drivers will not have to prove English proficiency<\/li>\n<li>drivers will not be required to have a fire extinguisher<\/li>\n<li>in lieu of drivers meeting with police in person, ride share companies will vouch that their drivers have complied<\/li>\n<li>drivers can begin once they pass the ride share company&#8217;s background check\n<ul>\n<li>for full permitting, within 14 days, the driver must pass the city&#8217;s background check<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>reconfiguring the fees the companies would pay to operate\n<ul>\n<li>fees will be assessed by size of ride share company<\/li>\n<li>$625 for up to 10 drivers to $25,000 for more than 300 drivers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/local\/article\/City-unveils-new-proposals-for-Uber-Lyft-6112873.php\">San Antonio Express News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After passing restrictive local regulations that could cease\u00a0Uber, Lyft, and ride share operations. San Antonio is proposing revisions that, if approved Thursday, would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>strip\u00a0away insurance requirements\n<ul>\n<li>no longer require excess coverage of $2000,000 when the driver has no rider\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>maintains commercial liability coverage at $1 million when there is a rider in the car<\/li>\n<li>no longer requires an additional $1 million in coverage for uninsured or underinsu&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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":[10,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-local","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","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=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}