The City Council has officially approved the regulatory framework to allow ride-sharing services to operate within Birmingham. We have successfully opened the market to innovation after years of local resistance. My focus now shifts to monitoring the implementation process to ensure these companies launch without unnecessary bureaucratic delays.
October 19, 2015
Final supporters
It's clear that Birminghamians remain unhappy with their city's leadership. On Thursday, Art Carden, and econmonics professor at Samford University, wrote a scathing op-ed criticizing the city's taxi problems. He mentioned many of the same critiques that have been leveled against the city's transportation system (cabs in particular) since the uproar began in the summer of 2014.
But one simple sentence stands out as the most important and most effective argument for opening Birmingham up for app-based ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft:
"Resistance to innovation hurts the Birmingham brand."
It's time to make the Birmingham City Council listen to its constituents.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
August 4, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
July 28, 2015
July 26, 2015
We are approaching the one hundred signature mark which serves as the threshold for our formal request to the City Council. Please direct your contacts to the petition link immediately so we can present this data at the upcoming transportation briefing.
260 Comments
Bring UBER AND LYFT to Birmingham! We are a city in a complete renaissance and deserve better options for transportation - not only for locals, but for visitors to our great city. It is laughable to out-of-towners that we do not already offer this necessary service.
Birmingham is the first city that has made me feel like I never have a safe ride home. I have been verbally abused by many taxis drivers here and taken advantage off (overcharged, taking the long way). In every other city I've been to with uber (15+), this has never occurred once.
As a person who is unable to drive because of multiple disabilities, I am dependent on other people to get me to and from work, to go to doctors appoints and anywhere else I need to go.. I do ride the bus but, lets face it they can only do so much. We need Uber in Birmingham.
I think more options for people to get home safely would be great for bars and restaurants. Right now it is almost impossible for someone to get a cab when they are intoxicated. They have to wait so long, that they often times give up and want to drive home.
Free market alternatives are essential in all business sectors. Sloss Fest proved that with Birmingham's lack of comprehensive public transportation, ride sharing is a necessity to augment what is currently available.
Allow creative destruction and innovation take place to provide for the best economic growth.
Our Transportation in Birmingham Alabama is sad right now no Twenty four bus system no subway we need Uber and Lyft so city council wake up
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The City Council has officially approved the regulatory framework to allow ride-sharing services to operate within Birmingham. We have successfully opened the market to innovation after years of local resistance. My focus now shifts to monitoring the implementation process to ensure these companies launch without unnecessary bureaucratic delays.
October 19, 2015
Final supporters
It's clear that Birminghamians remain unhappy with their city's leadership. On Thursday, Art Carden, and econmonics professor at Samford University, wrote a scathing op-ed criticizing the city's taxi problems. He mentioned many of the same critiques that have been leveled against the city's transportation system (cabs in particular) since the uproar began in the summer of 2014.
But one simple sentence stands out as the most important and most effective argument for opening Birmingham up for app-based ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft:
"Resistance to innovation hurts the Birmingham brand."
It's time to make the Birmingham City Council listen to its constituents.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
August 4, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
July 28, 2015
July 26, 2015
We are approaching the one hundred signature mark which serves as the threshold for our formal request to the City Council. Please direct your contacts to the petition link immediately so we can present this data at the upcoming transportation briefing.
260 Comments
Uber is safer, cleaner and cheaper. To compare, my friend left her cell phone in a yellow cab and never saw it again. Another left her keys in an uber and had them delivered by the Uber Driver the next day.
Bring UBER AND LYFT to Birmingham! We are a city in a complete renaissance and deserve better options for transportation - not only for locals, but for visitors to our great city. It is laughable to out-of-towners that we do not already offer this necessary service.
Birmingham is the first city that has made me feel like I never have a safe ride home. I have been verbally abused by many taxis drivers here and taken advantage off (overcharged, taking the long way). In every other city I've been to with uber (15+), this has never occurred once.
As a person who is unable to drive because of multiple disabilities, I am dependent on other people to get me to and from work, to go to doctors appoints and anywhere else I need to go.. I do ride the bus but, lets face it they can only do so much. We need Uber in Birmingham.
I think more options for people to get home safely would be great for bars and restaurants. Right now it is almost impossible for someone to get a cab when they are intoxicated. They have to wait so long, that they often times give up and want to drive home.
Free market alternatives are essential in all business sectors. Sloss Fest proved that with Birmingham's lack of comprehensive public transportation, ride sharing is a necessity to augment what is currently available.
Allow creative destruction and innovation take place to provide for the best economic growth.
Our Transportation in Birmingham Alabama is sad right now no Twenty four bus system no subway we need Uber and Lyft so city council wake up
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Uber is safer, cleaner and cheaper. To compare, my friend left her cell phone in a yellow cab and never saw it again. Another left her keys in an uber and had them delivered by the Uber Driver the next day.