All the headlines from our Ridesharing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 17 2014 // Ridesharing services are becoming increasingly popular among consumers looking for a more convenient alternative to taxis or other forms of public transportation, and new ridesharing companies have been cropping up...
Jul 16 2014 // The Seattle City Council on Monday passed new rules regulating rideshare companies, allowing them to operate in the city without a limit on the number of cars.Monday’s vote comes a week after the council repealed...
Jul 16 2014 // A St. Louis, Mo., judge extended a temporary restraining order that bans the ride-sharing service Lyft from operating in the city or St. Louis County.St. Louis Circuit Judge Joan Moriarty said this week that Lyft cannot...
Jul 16 2014 // The city of Annapolis wants ridesharing company Uber to stop operating in Maryland’s capital until it registers as a cab service.Riders connect with drivers using Uber’s smartphone app. The company has been...
Jul 15 2014 // Lyft Inc., the car-sharing business vying with Uber Technologies Inc. for customers hailing rides with smartphones, agreed to further postpone its start in New York City and avoided a court-ordered shutdown sought by the...
Jul 14 2014 // Even as it faces new regulatory headaches in New York, transportation network company Lyft is making news this week with a major announcement today that should quiet at least some of its vocal critics: the company has...
Jul 14 2014 // The ride-sharing service Uber has started in four South Carolina cities.Service began last week in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville and Myrtle Beach. Those needing ride use an app on a smartphone and the service connects...
Jul 14 2014 // The on-demand ride-sharing app Lyft postponed its scheduled launch in New York City last Friday while a New York state judge will wait to consider whether its planned operations violate state and local laws.The state...
Jul 14 2014 // Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. are racing to recruit drivers to spur the growth of their ride- sharing businesses. Stefanie Leifer recently found herself caught in the middle.Leifer has worked for San Francisco-based...
Jul 10 2014 // Jonathan Danial is a concierge, making sure guests have bottled water, crisp linens and the signature house banana bread — in his home.David Pavel has been a classic limo driver, chatting up his passengers as he gets...
Jul 10 2014 // Lyft Inc. isn’t authorized to offer ride sharing in New York, according to the city’s taxi regulator, just days before it was due to start service.The service hasn’t complied with safety requirements and...
Jul 9 2014 // Uber Technologies says it is temporarily cutting its prices in New York City with the aim of making its service cheaper than an average taxi ride, the car service app announced Monday.The San Francisco start-up said it is...
Jul 7 2014 // The share-and-share-alike attitude considered a virtue by some has become fighting words between ridesharing companies and the insurance industry.“We try not to make it a battle,” says Robert Passmore, senior...
Jul 7 2014 // Ridesharing services are becoming increasingly popular among consumers looking for a more convenient alternative to taxis or other forms of public transportation, and startup ridesharing companies have been cropping up...
Jul 3 2014 // Two administrative law judges have agreed with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to force two ride-share companies to stop operating in Pittsburgh.The judges issued their rulings Tuesday, five days after PUC...
Jun 30 2014 // A Boston labor lawyer has sued the car service Uber, alleging that it exploits its drivers.The suit filed on June 26 in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston by attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan says Uber Technologies Inc....
Jun 27 2014 // The share-and-share-alike attitude considered a virtue by some has the potential to create a rift between between ridesharing companies and insurance companies.“We try not to make it a battle,” said Robert...
Jun 27 2014 // New Mexico regulators have denied a temporary operating permit for ridesharing company Uber.The Albuquerque Journal reported that the Public Regulation Commission voted 3-2 on Wednesday to withhold the permit from Uber...
Jun 26 2014 // A bill that would impose insurance requirements on ridesharing companies in California passed a state Senate committee 9-1 on Wednesday, although with somewhat lower costs to the industry than previously written into the...
Jun 25 2014 // Florida’s Miami-Dade County continues to have problems with the ride-for-hire industry and is looking to other cities for examples of how to legislate the growing businesses.The Miami Herald reports the county has...