Ride-sharing crackdown gets support, opposition from alderman

Alderman Ed Burke (14^th) during a Monday joint hearing of the City Council Transportation and Finance committees called for ride-share companies like Uber, Sidecar and Lyft to be required to “adhere to the [taxi industry] regulations already in effect”; Alderman Joe Moreno (1^st) called for “common-sense regulations” of the burgeoning industry, which he said Burke and Alderman Anthony Beale (9^th) “basically want to kill”