City of Atlanta officials may alter a proposal to legalize airport pickups by ride-share services Uber X and Lyft, while a delegation of city and airport officials made a trip to Newark last week to study that city's deal with Uber.
Airport officials have said they plan to require Uber X and Lyft drivers to submit to fingerprint-based background checks in order to pick up passengers at the airport.
That proposal unveiled in March drew staunch opposition from Uber and Lyft, raising the threat that those ride-share services would not serve Hartsfield-Jackson International if the airport’s proposal were put into place.
Atlanta officials are putting a hold on efforts to put in place new regulations that would officially legalize and regulate Uber X and Lyft pickups at Hartsfield-Jackson, as they look at changing the airport’s proposal.
Credit: Kelly Yamanouchi
Credit: Kelly Yamanouchi
To read more about Newark's deal with Uber, Atlanta's review of its proposal for Uber and Lyft at the airport, and what it might mean for the airport's hopes to officially legalize Uber pickups at the airport by July 1, get the full story on myAJC.com.
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