{"id":505298,"date":"2016-06-23T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T17:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=505298"},"modified":"2016-06-24T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:21:33","slug":"officials-explore-bring-ride-sharing-to-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=505298","title":{"rendered":"Officials Explore Bringing Ride Sharing to Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/th-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/th-10-200x151.jpg\" alt=\"th\" width=\"200\" height=\"151\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-505299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/th-10-200x151.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/th-10.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Ride sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft may be one step closer to hitting Tyler.   According to KETK, City Manager Edward Broussard says officials hope to have a plan by August that they can bring to council for approval.  They&#8217;re looking at similar sized cities such as Lubbock and Beaumont to see how it operates there.  They&#8217;re also trying to create a level playing field with existing taxicab companies.   Broussard says, &#8220;There may be some deregulation of our current taxicab industry in order to then make it competitive for them with the network-based companies that Uber and Lyft are.&#8221;  Officials are also discussing different options in terms of safety and background checks for the drivers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Ride sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft may be one step closer to hitting Tyler. According to KETK, City Manager Edward Broussard says officials hope to have a plan by August that they can bring to council for approval. They&#8217;re looking at similar sized cities such as Lubbock and Beaumont to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=505298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials Explore Bringing Ride Sharing to Tyler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":505299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 19:07:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505301,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505298\/revisions\/505301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/505299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}