Uber says new regulations could close them down

In an email to the San Antonio City Council on Sunday, Uber officials said they may have to shut down operations here if the council adopts new regulations later this week.

Read the letter here.

The council has been discussing regulations for ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft, which use smart-phone apps to connect nonprofessional drivers with others looking for a ride.

The taxi industry says Uber and Lyft are de-facto cab companies and as such should follow the same regulations they do. The ride-share companies, known in San Antonio as transportation network companies or TNCs, disagree.

In the emial Sunday, Dallas-based Leandre Johns, an Uber general manager wrote that the proposed changes have resulted in an amended ordinance with numerous flaws that if enacted would force TNCs to abandon service in San Antonio.

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