Bill charges higher fees for Uber and Lyft in Massachusetts

BOSTON – Three Mbadachusetts lawmakers join a regional planning advocacy group to charge higher fees for blame companies like Uber and Lyft.

Human rights activists say higher fees could help reduce traffic and increase the incomes of towns and villages to invest in transport projects.

Democratic legislators – Lynn Senator Brendan Crighton and representatives Jay Livingstone of Boston and Cambridge and Adrian Madaro of Boston – tabled the bill with the Metropolitan Planning Council to increase the fees for so-called businesses transport network. Current fees are 20 cents per way.

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The bill would create a pricing structure of 6.25% of each trip for single-driver trips, or 4.25% for shared trips.

The money would be shared between the original municipality of a vehicle, the state and a taxi industry fund.

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