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Uber rides in Lawrence stable despite price raise
HAILEY DIXON
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A typical weekend night in Lawrence brings out
taxis, Safe Bus, designated drivers and other forms of transportation to take students to and from bars and parties safely. One form of transportation that is widely used and popular among University students is Uber.
Connor Mills, a junior from Shawnee, has driven for Uber for about a month. He said he did not know the reason why the booking fee has increased by 35 cents. However, he said the demand has stayed steady despite the fee increase.
Last month, Uber's increased booking fee — from $1 to $1.35 — for rides in Lawrence went into effect, making rides a tad more expensive.
"Since that fee increase has happened, I have not noticed any increase or decrease in the amount of riders," he said. "I think it's stayed pretty consistent
over the time that I've been driving."
Mills said that with his experience with Uber, he thinks that college students are not really concerned about the fee.
"I don't think it will be really an issue for them," he said. "A lot of the times, the distances are very short."
Photo illustration by Andrea Ringgenberg/KANSAN
Mills said the most popular spot for riders to be picked up and dropped off at is on Massachusetts Street on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
"The amount of drivers, I think it's pretty suitable for the amount of riders," he said.
Mills said that he thinks there are enough drivers in Lawrence to balance the supply and demand.
"When kids are drunk, and it's cold in the winter, and things like the climate, and how far away it [the location] is, how able you are to get home safely, I think people will keep using it," she said.
Cam Smith, a freshman from Kansas City, Kansas, said she thinks people will still use Uber in Lawrence heavily, despite the change of booking fee.
Even though she understands why the price has gone up, she said it can be annoying, especially for college students.
She said that she thinks other ride-hailing applications, like Lyft, may rise to prominence and popularity among college students if the prices keep increasing with Uber.
Uber is positive for both drivers and riders.
Overall, Mills said that
"I think that app and Uber as a company has made it really safe for both the rider and the driver," he said. "I would give them a lot of credit."
The Kansan contacted Uber and did not receive a response.
- Edited by Frank Weirich
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that these members would promote collaboration and represent the interests of Student Senate.
Sophia Templin, a holdover senator from De Soto, said the language of bill is intentionally vague so that MSG has room to grow and figure out what works best for them.
"We're hoping to work with MSG to make sure that we understand who exactly their constituents are," Templin said. "The purpose of doing that is so that senators can't misconstrue what is exactly going on with MSG. We want to make sure specific in areas we need to be specific and vague in areas that need to be vague. MSG changes every week. It's changing everyday, and we want to make sure that the actual structure of MSG is flexible."
The bill faced some opposition in the Rights Committee from Jonathan Ehrlich, a law senator from Creston, Iowa, who said the bill was unreasonable and not logical.
"I see this as an attempt to discriminate now in order to make up for discrimination in the past," Ehrlich said. "I think they are better suited to be a student club or maybe a committee. I haven't been shown that it's been properly thought-out and that it's been properly written."
Carpenter said multicultural students have done the work and taken the proper channels to get representation within Senate, but faced obstacles from the chancellor and Student Senate.
"At the end of the day, this is a compromise between marginalized students and Student Senate," she said.
Stephonn Alcorn, University student body president, said he hopes to continue to work on the bill in order to solidify the relationship between Student Senate and MSG.
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Ehrlich was the lone member of Rights Committee to oppose the bill.
Kenneth Smith/K-ANSA MGMs member Mercedes Bountyman (left) and Keenan Gregory (right) discuss a bill that would include MSG in Student Senate bylaws during Wednesday night's Student Rights Committee meeting.
"I think there are certainly things we can continue to work on to make sure the bill that we present next week in full Senate next," Alcorn said. "Tonight, what has passed sets us up in a place to have a successful relationship and see if the two bodies coexist together."
He said he thinks MSG will collaborate with the Multicultural Affairs Committee and the director of Diversity and Inclusion for their programming.
"A lot of the things that they are doing are goals that we believe in as well and we want them to succeed, and I think that can only happen with having a good relationship and working together," Alcorn said.
After the two committees passed the bill to establish MSG in Senate's Rules and Regulations, the Senate Finance Committee voted to allocate $1 per student of line-item funding to MSG pending the approval of full senate and Gray-Little.
The fee was passed in tandem with a Memorandum of Agreement, which would solidify a relationship between Student Senate and MSG for the next four years. According to Alcorn, this will ensure that MSG will have funding for at least the extent of the MOA.
The bill adding MSG to Senate and the fee will be presented to full Senate at its meeting next Wednesday.
rrnity Carpenter discusses a bill that would include MSG in Student Senate bylaws during the March 29 Student Rights Committee meeting.
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