Last month, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Airport Commission approved plans for Uber, Lyft and other ride-sharing companies to pick up passengers at LAX. But members of the City Council put up a stop sign, demanding debate and discussion. Yesterday, a council committee heard five hours of heated testimony, as a transformative new technology met politics as usual.
City Government and the Sharing Economy
Credits
Guests:
- Fernando Guerra - professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University and director of its Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles - @LMU_CSLA
- Paul Krekorian - Los Angeles City Council - @PaulKrekorian
- Mike Bonin - member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 11th district - @mikebonin