{"id":311,"date":"2015-10-01T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/10\/01\/local-gov-trend-deregulate-ride-share-to-level-the-field\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:47:00","slug":"local-gov-trend-deregulate-ride-share-to-level-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/local-gov-trend-deregulate-ride-share-to-level-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Gov. Trend: Deregulate Ride Share to Level the Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarasota City Commissioners\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/article\/20150908\/ARTICLE\/150909666\" style=\"background-color:rgb(249,249,249);color:rgb(0,174,239);text-decoration:none;font-family:Roboto, 'Open Sans', sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:32px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted unanimously<\/a>\u00a0to deregulate all for-hire vehicle services to ensure both ride share and taxi cabs are permitted to conduct their business without government interference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No regulations for cabs and ride share?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, indeed. Instead of choosing to regulate ride share, the city council de-regulated both types of transportation services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about\u00a0\u00a0stronger background checks, insurance requirements and vehicle standards?<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cIf they don\u2019t have these things, they\u2019re going to be out of business,\u201d Commissioner Liz Alpert said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ij.org\/action-post\/sarasota-levels-the-playing-field-for-taxis-deregulates-industry\/\">Institute for Justice | Sarasota Deregulates Taxi Industry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarasota City Commissioners\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/article\/20150908\/ARTICLE\/150909666\" style=\"background-color:rgb(249,249,249);color:rgb(0,174,239);text-decoration:none;font-family:Roboto, 'Open Sans', sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:32px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted unanimously<\/a>\u00a0to deregulate all for-hire vehicle services to ensure both ride share and taxi cabs are permitted to conduct their business without government interference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No regulations for cabs and ride share?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, indeed. Instead of choosing to regulate ride share, the city council de-regulated both types of transportation services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about\u00a0\u00a0stronger background checks, insurance requirements and vehicle standards?<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cIf they don\u2019t have these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government","category-regulatory-trend","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}