BOSTON MAYOR MARTY Walsh wants to reduce traffic choking city streets and enhance transit options in the city through a mixture of targeted taxes on ride-hailing services and investments by the MBTA. On Tuesday, Walsh advocated for both the revenue and the spending ideas during two separate meetings: a legislative hearing at the State House […]
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Baker proposes new ride-hailing regs
Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday proposed a range of new regulations to prevent abuses of the Uber and Lyft ride-hailing platforms and to more precisely monitor how those on-demand travel services are being used. The legislation would require the tech giants that host the services to share reams of anonymized data about rides so that […]
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Mass. ride-hailing trips rise 25% in 2018
RIDE -HAILING APPS such as Uber and Lyft continued their strong growth in Massachusetts during 2018, boosting the number of passenger trips by 25 percent and starting to move outside the major urban centers. Ride-hailing apps handled 81.3 million trips in Massachusetts during 2018, up from 64.8 million the year before, according to a report […]
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The Codcast: Crunch time for ride-hailing bills
The House and Senate have finally named their representatives to the conference committee that will hammer out a compromise on competing bills to regulate ride-hailing companies but whatever the final law looks like, it won’t placate everyone. Sen. Eric Lesser of Longmeadow, one of the members on the panel that wrote the Senate’s final version, and […]