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posted by martyb on Saturday April 18 2015, @10:22AM   Printer-friendly
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[On April 7th,] Hawaii legislators voted to take Senate Bill 1280 into conference as the final weeks of the 2015 legislative session approach. SB 1280 seeks to regulate Transportation Network Companies by appropriating funds to the state Public Utilities Commission for the purpose of regulating Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) and their drivers. The bill would also mandate that TNCs register as businesses with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. It would also establish insurance requirements and qualifications for ride-hailing drivers.

“Drivers shouldn't feel like they can't make a living or make part-time money transporting passengers,” said Dale Evans, President of Charley's Taxi. Evans also said “Our company will happily help any Uber driver who wants to keep driving legally as a Taxi driver. We'll assist them with following the necessary steps to get licensed, get the correct equipment and have the proper insurance. Nobody should lose out on their ability to earn money because of SB1280.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @12:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @12:43PM (#172380)

    We shouldn't even need goddamn taxis. We need cities where transportation is possible without having to pay some third-worlder far too much money for shitty service, or where we have to pay some hipster far too much money for riskier service. Taxis were very limited before the 1950s, when cities still had proper infrastructure like trams and streetcars, and trains carried people across longer distances.

    Taxis are the problem. Uber is the problem.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday April 18 2015, @08:23PM

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday April 18 2015, @08:23PM (#172570) Journal

    Cities have NEVER had adequate infrastructure for mass transit. The great Los Angeles "Red Car" myth is always thrown up when this discussion comes up. It might be worth looking into it. Red Line was itself a conspiracy of land developers, and never actually served the cities needs.

    Channelized transportation (rigid rail/bus lines) is every much as big of a problem for the modern world as is point-to-point transportation.
    No transportation structure will survive with more than a 30 minute headway (interval between departures from any given place to another). Yet cities plan lines around the 30 minute headway all the time, thereby assuring the financial failure of their systems. They then wonder while ridership is down.

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  • (Score: 2) by davester666 on Sunday April 19 2015, @06:54AM

    by davester666 (155) on Sunday April 19 2015, @06:54AM (#172746)

    Yes. Just have a network of catapult's, trebuchet's and mattresses for public transportation within cities.