The Making of a Debit Card Monopoly
How San Francisco’s taxi paratransit program is getting ruined by politics
San Francisco’s taxi paratransit program has long been a blessing for our disabled citizens. Since 1979—more than a decade before the federal ADA law of 1991—our city government has provided subsidized transportation for frail seniors, wheelchair users, dialysis patients and others with serious disabilities. Its innovative use of taxicabs for paratransit has been emulated nationwide.
The program works by utilizing taxis to transport the program’s participants. Users receive discounted coupons known as taxi scrip to pay for these trips. Taxi drivers can then redeem those coupons for cash.
As one might imagine, the use of paper coupons for payment has been a serious flaw in the program, leading to high administrative overhead and fraud by a small but significant minority of users and drivers.
San Francisco’s taxi paratransit program has long been a blessing for our disabled citizens. Since 1979—more than a decade before the federal ADA law of 1991—our city government has provided subsidized transportation for frail seniors, wheelchair users, dialysis patients and others with serious disabilities. Its innovative use of taxicabs for paratransit has been emulated nationwide.
The program works by utilizing taxis to transport the program’s participants. Users receive discounted coupons known as taxi scrip to pay for these trips. Taxi drivers can then redeem those coupons for cash.
As one might imagine, the use of paper coupons for payment has been a serious flaw in the program, leading to high administrative overhead and fraud by a small but significant minority of users and drivers.
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