…but only the union way.
In the past month, San Francisco International Airport officials have been citing and arresting drivers from mobile-app enabled rideshare companies that pick up and drop off passengers, an airport spokesman said. Airport spokesman Doug Yakel said there have been seven citizen arrests issued to “various offenders” since July 10. The airport had issued cease and desist letters to several rideshare companies, including Lyft, Sidecarv and Uber, in April.
Notice that these are not “professional” drivers—not union cabbies—that are being harassed. CBS San Francisco points out that the harasses are “drivers participating in a mobile app arrangement typified by Sidecar.”
Naturally, a union—a taxi union in this case—objects to rideshare at “their” airport. The competition might save the customers money (good for them, bad for the protected class), and it might save gas (good for the environment, bad for—well, not much of anyone).
But there’s a solution afoot:
The state Public Utilities Commission, which regulates and licenses passenger carriers, has been looking into how to regulate these new types of companies.
Of course. Because we Americans are just too stupid to be trusted to do anything on our own, without a Know Better Government’s regulation to tell us what to do, how to do it, and when we should do it.