{"id":2560,"date":"2022-03-04T00:33:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T00:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2022-03-04T00:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T00:33:14","slug":"1-city-helping-taxi-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/1-city-helping-taxi-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"+1  City Helping Taxi Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? We&#8217;ve talked about L.A. working on ordinances to give the taxi industry a boost by sharing data and loosening medallion restrictions. Welcome Austin, Texas to this mindset. From 2017 to 2021, taxi rides decreased 91%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important?  Austin is considering an operating authority licensing model in lieu of the old way, a franchise licensing model<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? This means taxis will be regulated like vehicle-for-hire companies. e.g. limousines, charter vans, charter buses, touring and sight-seeing coaches, pedicabs and low-speed electric vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/2022\/03\/02\/austins-taxi-industry-hurting-city-weighs-possible-lifeline\/9323222002\/\">Austin American Statesman | Austin&#8217;s taxicab industry is suffering; the city is ready to throw a lifeline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? We&#8217;ve talked about L.A. working on ordinances to give the taxi industry a boost by sharing data and loosening medallion restrictions. Welcome Austin, Texas to this mindset. From 2017 to 2021, taxi rides decreased 91% Why is this important? Austin is considering an operating authority licensing model in lieu of the old way, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}