Category: ride share

What BC Heard From Gig Workers as It Plans to Regulate the Industry

As British Columbia considers regulating the gig economy, including app-based ride-share and food-delivery services, it spent months consulting with workers, platform companies, and academics. On April 12, the province published the feedback it got. As with similar plans to regulate the gig economy in other jurisdictions, the debate in B.C. centres on a trade-off in…


Ride-Share Prices Are Rising. Will They Ever Go Back Down?

By Sarah Freishtat From Chicago Tribune The number of tourists, office workers and partyers venturing out in Chicago is ticking up, and ride-share prices are rising with them. The surge has left many riders wondering: when will prices go back down? Ride-share users paid an average of $26.43 per trip in June, Chicago city data…