Vernon officials are using Uber to bring people to vaccine clinics. It’s a first in the nation.
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Years behind other states, rules for Uber, Lyft win final passage
The Senate voted 28-8 Tuesday night to approve a bill that would make Connecticut one of the last states to impose standards on ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft. The bill now goes to the governor.
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Land of Steady Habits finally addresses rules for Uber, Lyft
Connecticut acted belatedly Thursday to impose standards on Uber and Lyft, the market-disrupting, ride-sharing companies that arrived here three years ago, ignoring a regulatory structure devised for taxicabs — not an app-driven matchmaking service for drivers willing to pick up passengers in their personal cars.
Posted inCT Viewpoints, Talking Transportation
Is Uber really a bargain for Connecticut riders?
In the almost two years since Uber rolled into Connecticut, the state’s car/taxi service business has been rocked to its core. But is Uber competing on the same level as taxis and car service companies? Of course not, which is why it’s so successful. I spoke with Uber’s Connecticut Manager Matt Powers and Drivers Unlimited (a Darien car and limo company) owner Randy Klein to try to get an objective comparison of the services. (Full disclosure: I have been a customer of both firms.)
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On second-to-last day, 215 bills awaited final action
Beneath the struggle to pass a budget Tuesday, a fight that cast a shadow over everything and everyone in the State Capitol, were the myriad small dramas endemic to every session finale, when sleep-deprived lobbyists and legislators crash against the hard adjournment deadline of midnight Wednesday.
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House votes to set standards for Uber
A year after Uber entered the Connecticut market, ignoring rules and regulations imposed on the taxi industry, the House voted Saturday night for a bill that would establish safety and insurance standards on the ride-sharing business.
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Connecticut may leave Uber unregulated for another year
After a day of public-hearing testimony about free markets, innovation and regulation, the only consensus at the General Assembly about Uber was that the market-disrupting ride service is in Connecticut to stay. Exactly how or when to set rules for a business that’s upended the highly regulated taxicab industry was unclear Monday evening.
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Uber, taxis line up lobbyists for Connecticut battle
A lobbying war between Connecticut’s taxi industry and Uber Technologies, whose ride-sharing service is the epitome of a “disruptive technology” and the evolving “sharing economy,” is about to emerge from the shadows in Hartford.