Dallas guys, please save Uber Dallas!

[george.arnold]

If you haven't heard, Uber is the best new way to get around Dallas. Use the Uber app on your phone to hail a Towncar or a Suburban instead of a taxi. There is much less wait time and the drivers and their cars are nice. I've been using it for about 6 months whenever I get up there and it is awesome. I've never waited for more than 5 minutes for a car.

Check out the app or the website. Uber.com

Since our launch almost a year ago now, Uber has made great strides in creating a convenient, efficient, safe, and classy transportation alternative in Dallas. Our technology platform has improved transportation options for thousands of Dallasites, and has helped grow the small businesses of hundreds of our driver partners.

Unfortunately, the City of Dallas will soon decide on rule changes, proposed suspiciously late Friday night that, if enacted, would shut Uber down. The bill’s proponents - City Manager Joey Zapata and the taxi industry - have been trying to circumvent the City Council’s regular process and add last-minute language to the Council’s agenda, to avoid Council scrutiny and citizen feedback. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has rightly pledged to “get to the bottom of this for Dallas citizens”..

This eleventh-hour move to outlaw competition in order to appease the Dallas taxi industry and create a government-sponsored monopoly for Dallas taxis is appalling. Dallas deserves better than this – it deserves transportation options, not protectionist politics-as-usual.

Certain city officials are trying to slip this one in under the radar – we need your help telling them what Dallas thinks of that! Sign the petition and tell the City Council #DallasNeedsUber on Twitter!

Together we can protect Dallas transportation options that help make this city more livable, more vibrant and more efficient. For more detail, check out our blog post here.

Uber on,

Leandre Johns
Uber Dallas, General Manager

Sign the Petition #DallasNeedsUber

 

[george.arnold]

Haha. Just got banned for eternity on DFW50s for posting this up. Oh well. I genuinely enjoy this service and just wanted to make sure it doesn't go away.

 

[Midnight11]

maybe you should have talked to the admin (me) before you posted this spam

 

[Monster Mach]

maybe you should have talked to the admin (me) before you posted this spam

Your version of "spam" is different than most

 

[Midnight11]

Your version of "spam" is different than most

this was his very first post on my site. maybe make an intro thread first...

the other admin thought he was a bot that got past and banned him.

 

[Monster Mach]

this was his very first post on my site. maybe make an intro thread first...

the other admin thought he was a bot that got past and banned him.

O well shit happens

 

[Midnight11]

O well shit happens

also please tell me how you wouldnt consider this spam on a mustang club site?

 

[Monster Mach]

also please tell me how you wouldnt consider this spam on a mustang club site?

He's not advertising he's not asking for money he's helping out a taxi company from monopolization. The world is gunna end

 

[Midnight11]

He's not advertising he's not asking for money he's helping out a taxi company from monopolization. The world is gunna end

seems like hes advertising for said taxi company lol

 

[KWClutch]

Lol Nic...

 

[Monster Mach]

seems like hes advertising for said taxi company lol

Not really since this is to keep the taxi company from going out of business he isn't advertising he's asking for a pettition to be signed

 

[Emwun Garand]

Anyone who has their first post as a petition for members of a forum to sign is going to get banned, pretty much anywhere.

Typically, you have to be an established contributing member before posting anything asking for help.