INTERIM 6 Points from Austin Mayor Adler on Ride Share

Austin Mayor Adler has a piece in Trib Talk about ride share entitled, Innovation is the way forward for Austin and Uber/Lyft. 

His main points:

• an election is costly, and that money could be spent on other projects
• forcing a hand on ordinances isn’t the Austin way
• he wants to keep Uber and Lyft in Austin
• he supports independent, third-party, cross-platform, virtual badges or validators that we call the Austin Thumbs Up! badge via 
• Austin Thumbs Up! would utilize 3rd parties to verify a person voluntarily passed a fingerprint background check
• he prefers incentives over mandates