{"id":370,"date":"2015-12-18T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/12\/18\/interim-sharing-economy-austin-passes-stricter-rules-for-ride-share-5-points-to-know\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:06:00","slug":"interim-sharing-economy-austin-passes-stricter-rules-for-ride-share-5-points-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/interim-sharing-economy-austin-passes-stricter-rules-for-ride-share-5-points-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM: Sharing Economy. Austin Passes Stricter Rules for Ride Share. 5 Points to Know."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>drivers will have to\u00a0pass fingerprint-based background checks<\/li>\n<li>compliance is phased in over 1 year beginning February 1st 2016<\/li>\n<li>Councilmembers Ellen Troxclair and Don Zimmerman voted against the proposal<\/li>\n<li>Councilmember Ann Kitchen led the fight to conform requirements for ride share to those of taxi cabs<\/li>\n<li>Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo echoed a safety concern that if there is no ride share operating in Austin, due to fingerprint requirements, then\u00a0the number of drunk drivers will increase.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/mgmt\/tt-austin-uber-lyft.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_campaign=Will%20Peer%20Pressure%20Prevail%20in%20the%20Push%20to%20Let%20Young%20Teens%20Vote&amp;utm_term=Austin%20Passes%20Stricter%20Rules%20for%20Uber%2C%20Lyft\">Governing |\u00a0Austin Passes Stricter Rules for Uber, Lyft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>drivers will have to\u00a0pass fingerprint-based background checks<\/li>\n<li>compliance is phased in over 1 year beginning February 1st 2016<\/li>\n<li>Councilmembers Ellen Troxclair and Don Zimmerman voted against the proposal<\/li>\n<li>Councilmember Ann Kitchen led the fight to conform requirements for ride share to those of taxi cabs<\/li>\n<li>Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo echoed a safety concern that if there is no ride share operating in Austin, due to fingerprint requirements, then\u00a0the number of drunk drivers will&#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":[36,10,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}