FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Uber and Lyft shutdown in Austin (updated: they're back)
Thread: Uber and Lyft shutdown in Austin (updated: they're back)
View Single Post
Old May 29, 2017 | 7:01 pm
  #5  
aztimm
Moderator: American AAdvantage, Travel Safety/Security & Texas, FlyerTalk Evangelist
All eyes on you!
15 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: AUS / GRK
Programs: AA, HHonors, Hertz
Posts: 13,968
As of today, both Uber and Lyft are back in Austin:
http://www.statesman.com/news/transp...sjQt0nRnf6NVN/

...a few minutes after 10 a.m., Gov. Greg Abbott used four pens to affix his signature to House Bill 100, taking ride-hailing regulation statewide in Texas and rendering moot the Austin ordinance that Lyft and its chief competitor, Uber, disliked so much they shut down operations in Austin a little more than a year ago.
Related

The Lyft app went live about 10:40 a.m. Uber and its app followed about noon....
aztimm is offline  
Reply