{"id":982,"date":"2018-03-13T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/03\/13\/local-government-trend-ride-share-fees-exceed-revenue-estimates-3-bits-informedintel\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T22:32:00","slug":"local-government-trend-ride-share-fees-exceed-revenue-estimates-3-bits-informedintel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/local-government-trend-ride-share-fees-exceed-revenue-estimates-3-bits-informedintel\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Government TREND. Ride Share Fees Exceed Revenue Estimates. 3 Bits informed:intel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fee background:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a050 cent surcharge on ride share &amp; taxi rides\u00a0in Portland Oregon since 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the fee a dedicated revenue fee?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, the fee revenue can only be used for\u00a0enforcement and regulation of the ride-hailing and taxi industries<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much excess fee has Portland collected in 2 years?<\/strong>\u00a0$3 Million<\/p>\n<p><strong>What enforcement does Portland conduct?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it boasts more on the spot inspections of ride share and taxi vehicles than any other US city, except NYC<\/li>\n<li>In 2017 that meant 10 city inspectors conducted roughly 3,300 on-street field audits\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What possible uses for the revenue are being floated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A wheelchair accessibility fund<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/investigations\/portland-collects-3-million-more-than-it-needs-from-uber-and-lyft-passengers\/283-527957254\">KGW8 News |\u00a0Portland collects $3 million more than it needs from Uber and Lyft passengers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fee background:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a050 cent surcharge on ride share &amp; taxi rides\u00a0in Portland Oregon since 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the fee a dedicated revenue fee?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, the fee revenue can only be used for\u00a0enforcement and regulation of the ride-hailing and taxi industries<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much excess fee has Portland collected in 2 years?<\/strong>\u00a0$3 Million<\/p>\n<p><strong>What enforcement does Portland conduct?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it boasts more on the spot inspections of ride share and taxi vehicles than any other US city, except NYC<\/li>\n<li>In 2017 that meant 10 city inspectors\u2026<\/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":[30,26,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government","category-regulatory-trend","category-ride-share","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}