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Johns Hopkins University and UMBC should provide free MTA bus passes to their employees to encourage the use of public transportation. - A bail review hearing Richard S. Barnes is underway, although police have so far filed no charges against the Lyft driver.
- An Uber driver accused of raping a woman who had requested a ride from him was denied bail Monday.
- Police say Uber driver Joshua Robinson, 31, sexually assaulted a female passenger in his car Saturday night.
- According to a police report, an Uber driver sexually assaulted his customer Saturday night.
- Robert Reich: The jobs problem today isn't just stagnant wages, it's also uncertain incomes.
- As users of Lyft, as well as its larger competitor Uber, which is expected to soon follow it onto the public markets, we can attest that the service is awesome. But that doesn’t mean that the business is awesome. Here's how to decide if you should invest in the companies.
- Uber drivers in Maryland whose drivers license information was accessed in a 2016 data breach at the ride-sharing company will receive $100 each as part of a $148 million settlement with the states. Maryland will receive a little more than $4.4 million as part of the multistate settlement.
- Is Baltimore hip enough for electric scooter sharing? That's for city residents to decide, not some California start-up.
- Since their arrival just weeks ago, the more than 60 dockless, battery-powered scooters have become fixtures in the city.
- A year after the overhaul of Baltimore’s bus system, real-time tracking of the Maryland Transit Administration buses has arrived.
- There are still major technological, economic and logistical hurdles to overcome before autonomous and driverless cars become the norm.
- As summer kicks into high gear in July, visitors pouring into Delaware beaches are embracing Uber and Lyft as options.
- McDonald's is offering delivery service through UberEATS starting Monday. The service was rolled out at 44 McDonald's restaurants in the Baltimore area.
- Uber and Lyft have entered into a two-year deal with the state to become official transportation providers at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, officials said.
- To hoteliers pushing Annapolis lawmakers last week to tax and regulate home and room rentals, the target was clear: Airbnb, a multi-billion dollar corporation, whose growth they believe has been unfairly helped by its ability to operate outside the law.
- The app economy, with mobile applications like Uber and OpenTable pointing users to local businesses and contractors, has had both a positive and negative effect on local businesses.
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- Carroll organizations offer opportunities for safe rides home
- Ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft will not have to adopt fingerprint-based background checks for their drivers in order to continue operating in Maryland, but will have to agree to additional reporting and safety provisions, state regulators of the ridesharing industry said Thursday.
- The Maryland Public Service Commission is charged with keeping passengers safe — that's why Uber and Lyft should not get a special waiver exempting their drivers from fingerprint background checks. Across the country, a steady stream of news reports concern Uber drivers sexually and physically assaulting passengers.
- Lyft, the San Francisco-based rideshare company, contributed $12.3 million to Baltimore's local economy in 2016, according to a study released Monday by the firm.
- The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is traditionally the biggest drinking night of the year, resulting in high demand on rideshare apps such as Uber and Lyft. Here are tips to save time and money.
- Popular ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft will plead their case Thursday before the Maryland Public Service Commission that they should not be required to fingerprint drivers.
- Ridesharing services Uber and Lyft are pushing back against fingerprint-based background checks for drivers.
- Uber is introducing its standalone food delivery service in Baltimore.
- The 'financialization' of America is what's warping the economy and killing the middle class, David Hosey writes.
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- It's not always easy finding a ride home in Carroll County on New Year's Day, but if you live — or are staying — within the Westminster City limits this year, Carroll Cab would like to help you out.
- Baltimore says it needs a "world class mass transit system." A California company says it has the answer in its high-speed, magnetically levitated, egg-like pods designed to ferry commuters above the rush hour fray.
- After expanding to Ocean City earlier this year ride-sharing company Uber is now doing business in three Delaware beach towns.
- Traditional taxi companies and newer ride-sharing outfits like Uber and Lyft found rare common ground in Maryland, joining together to applaud the legislature's late-session passage of new industry regulations.
- Across the region on Thursday, those who had someplace to be — other than the neighborhood bar or their home telework station — tossed aside set schedules and their best-laid plans for whatever alternatives were still on the table amid the season's latest winter treatment: more sleet, ice and the fluffy white stuff.
- The fate of popular ride-sharing companies like Uber could be decided in coming weeks in Maryland, though the path forward remains murky.
- The popular ride-hailing company Uber Technologies has reached an agreement with state regulators to continue operating its sedan and SUV services in Maryland.
- In Annapolis, where ridesharing would be especially useful both to get people around town and deliver them to Baltimore, Washington and Ocean City, Mayor Mike Pantelides recently announced that the city will fine any driver using Uber's communications services.
- State regulators, a state consumer advocate and a major competitor of popular ride-sharing company Uber Technologies joined together Friday to question the appropriateness of a proposed settlement that would allow Uber to legally operate sedan and SUV services in Maryland.
- Uber issued a proposal that would enable it to continue operating legally in Maryland
- Towson-based Five Star Luxury Cars launched a mobile app last month that allows its users to hail a car through their smartphones.
- Uber has pulled off what few others can these days: The beloved car service has united politicians of all persuasions. Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians are all vying to outdo each other in portraying the popular ride-sharing company and its political struggles to avoid regulatory strangulation as a poignant validation of their individual world views.
- Prospects for Uber and other ride-sharing services in Maryland remain uncertain after the Public Service Commission's decision to treat them as common carriers
