{"id":77420,"date":"2017-02-01T21:59:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T02:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77420"},"modified":"2017-01-31T20:04:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T01:04:22","slug":"miller-advocates-for-ridesharing-in-upstate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77420","title":{"rendered":"Miller advocates for ridesharing in Upstate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=76942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76942\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-76942\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Brian-Miller.jpg?resize=134%2C200\" alt=\"Brian Miller\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Brian-Miller.jpg?w=134&amp;ssl=1 134w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Brian-Miller.jpg?resize=101%2C150&amp;ssl=1 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/a>Today, New York State Assemblyman Brian Miller called for the state Legislature to legalize ridesharing for upstate and the rest of the state. New York City is the only part of the state that ridesharing businesses like Uber and Lyft are allowed to operate, and New York State is the only state that has yet to legalize ridesharing statewide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRidesharing is smart, safe and provides an alternative to drunk driving,\u201d Miller said. \u201cIf Uber and Lyft can operate in New York City, then why can\u2019t upstate benefit from them as well? It doesn\u2019t make sense. Any initiative that can cut down on drunk driving should be available to everyone throughout the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madd.org\/drunk-driving\/state-stats\/New_York.html?referrer=https:\/\/www.google.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.madd.org\/drunk-driving\/state-stats\/New_York.html?referrer%3Dhttps:\/\/www.google.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1485994234056000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFndIm3lFcGsKsUzqtJjx1E0St2lA\">most recent statistics<\/a> from Mothers Against Drunk Driving show that New York had 311drunk driving fatalities last year. There were 8,368 alcohol-related crashes last year, resulting in 6,019 injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, New York State Assemblyman Brian Miller called for the state Legislature to legalize ridesharing for upstate and the rest of the state. New York City is the only part of the state that ridesharing businesses like Uber and Lyft are allowed to operate, and New York State is the only state that has yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-k8I","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Brian-Miller.jpg?fit=134%2C200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}