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Tag Archives: Ridesharing Works for Austin
Kanin on Council: Ride-Hailing set to go before Austin voters
KUT’s Jennifer Stayton talks to The Austin Monitor‘s Michael Kanin about the Austin City Council’s ridesharing debate, the last-minute negotiations and the lead-up to the May election on regulating Uber and Lyft. Embedded below.
Radio • By Michael Kanin • Feb 12, 2016
Council to discuss incentives for fingerprint requirements
City Council members are poised to kick the transportation network company ordinance down the road. On Thursday, Mayor Steve Adler will ask Council to stall strengthening an ordinance passed in December and, instead, adopt his and Council Member Ann Kitchen’s new…
Transportation • By Eva Ruth Moravec • Jan 27, 2016
Little clarity in TNC debate
Where there was once a clear path for City Council to revise rules for transportation network companies, there is now a plethora of possibilities. Council voted last month to require fingerprinting background checks of TNC drivers, and it is set to…
Austin • By Eva Ruth Moravec • Jan 21, 2016
Ridesharing supporters quickly surpass signatures needed to push for ordinance change
Ridesharing Works for Austin has collected 65,103 signatures on a petition to change a city ordinance requiring that drivers be fingerprinted – which could force either a new City Council vote or a city-wide election. The political action committee opposes rules…
