Is there an App for Disrupting Politics-as-Usual?


Disrupt this:

The measure has the enthusiastic support of many in the livery and black-car industries, which include some of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s most generous campaign contributors. Leaders of the taxi and limousine markets, including yellow taxi operators, infused his mayoral campaign with more than $300,000 and have often resisted the expansion of Uber and its rivals.  The administration noted that it had rankled some in the taxi industry over the expansion of green cabs outside Manhattan and its plan to add a surcharge to help pay for wheelchair-accessible cabs.

via Proposal Could Alter Use of Apps to Dispatch Cabs in New York City – NYTimes.com.

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