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freedom to travel at transportation forum  Dallas County
Libertarian Party Chair Paul Petersen will speak at the public
"Transportation for Hire Forum" at City Hall Tuesday, September
2 (6:00 pm to 9:00 pm) to discuss "policy changes that grew out
of the Uber furor."  Paul Petersen on Channel 11 News in 2010:
Then the big transportation issue was regulating texting while
driving. Today the issue is regulating transportation for hire.
When Uber came to Dallas a year ago the establishment taxi and
limo companies cried foul. Why? Because Uber was competing
directly with the traditional transportation-for-hire industry
by moving people from where they were to where they wanted to
go...inexpensively.  But Uber isn't a taxi or limo or shuttle or
even a ride-share business. The company explains "We don’t own
the cars. We don’t employ drivers. We partner with the small
businesses in the city."  Can you say "there's an app for that"?
That's right, Uber is a