Sarasota deregulates all taxis, paves way for Uber

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Yesterday, Sarasota city commissioners unanimously voted ended its months-long debate as to how to regulate Uber, and instead, voted to strip existing regulations on taxicabs. Read more.

The Pensacola City Council held a workshop on Uber in August. The city has information about the issue on its Transparency page. However, no proposed regulations for Uber and taxi services made the council’s the Sept. 14 agenda.

We will have to wait another month to see how our city government wants to handle this.

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”