{"id":648,"date":"2016-11-29T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/11\/29\/ride-share-and-accessible-options-schwertner-bill-fits-the-bill\/"},"modified":"2016-11-29T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T20:56:00","slug":"ride-share-and-accessible-options-schwertner-bill-fits-the-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/ride-share-and-accessible-options-schwertner-bill-fits-the-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride Share and Accessible Options. Schwertner Bill fits the bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The ride share issue:\u00a0<\/strong>accessibility for the disability community<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do local ordinances require accessibility standards?<\/strong>\u00a0In Austin, TX, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it working?<\/strong>\u00a0Not according to the former chair of Austin&#8217;s\u00a0Capmetro\u00a0accessibility board<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/Text.aspx?LegSess=85R&amp;Bill=SB176\"> Sen. Schwertner&#8217;s SB 176<\/a> require acessibility?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, and a surcharge is levied on companies that do not provide accessible service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kxan.com\/2016\/11\/27\/smaller-tncs-struggle-to-fill-gap-in-accessibility-after-uber-lyft-leave\/\"><strong>KXAN |\u00a0<\/strong>Smaller TNCs struggle to fill gap in accessibility after Uber, Lyft leave<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The ride share issue:\u00a0<\/strong>accessibility for the disability community<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do local ordinances require accessibility standards?<\/strong>\u00a0In Austin, TX, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it working?<\/strong>\u00a0Not according to the former chair of Austin&#8217;s\u00a0Capmetro\u00a0accessibility board<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/Text.aspx?LegSess=85R&amp;Bill=SB176\"> Sen. Schwertner&#8217;s SB 176<\/a> require acessibility?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, and a surcharge is levied on companies that do not provide accessible service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kxan.com\/2016\/11\/27\/smaller-tncs-struggle-to-fill-gap-in-accessibility-after-uber-lyft-leave\/\"><strong>KXAN |\u00a0<\/strong>Smaller TNCs struggle to fill gap in accessibility after Uber, Lyft leave<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislation","category-ride-share","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}