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[The Rainmaker]

Post a list of licenses Uber has in Miami currently so we can check. Nobody knows what licenses uber has in every city. More red herrings

[The Rainmaker]

Amazing news...Miami

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

Uber and Lyft are now legal in Miami-Dade, and taxi owners vow to fight back

By Douglas Hanks
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MAY 03, 2016 07:38 PM, UPDATED MAY 04, 2016 01:01 PM

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Jean Donald St. Louis speaks before the final vote in the Miami-Dade commission for legislation that would legalize Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services in the county on Tuesday, May 3, 2016. AL [e-mail]

Expect to see far more Uber passengers riding in the backseat in Miami-Dade County.
The ride-hailing company had encouraged Miami-Dade drivers to put passengers in the front as part of a strategy to avoid detection by county inspectors enforcing local laws that bar the app-based alternative to taxis. But on Tuesday, Miami-Dade commissioners on a 9-2 vote passed ordinances that legalized the Uber business model, which uses freelance drivers charging fees that rise and fall with sales.
Following nine hours of public comments and debate, commissioners adopted legislation that also dismantles some of the county’s regulation of taxis and shifts screening of for-hire drivers from local regulators to the companies themselves. Taxi drivers will no longer have to undergo county customer-service training or government auto inspections, but will be required to offer the same kind of app-based hailing software that Uber and its smaller competitor, Lyft, rely on exclusively for selling rides.
“Our approach was not to have government insert itself into something that the public seems to want,” said Commissioner Esteban “Steve” Bovo, the sponsor of the pro-Uber legislation now slated to become law. “But how can the taxi industry come into the 21st century and become competitive?”