Cease And Desist Letter Brings Leap's Private Buses To A Halt in SF
Source: SFist
Riders of Leap, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed private bus service that vowed to save us all the able-bodied from Muni, are as of today being forced to ride among the plebeians.
The company, which identifies itself on Facebook as a "Computers/Technology" service, posted last night that it would suspend its buses as permitting has been "held up due to various clerical issues."
Oh, yeah, and they "have now been issued a Cease and Desist notice from the PUC." That, too.
Leap has been operating in a sort of regulatory limbo, with the company waiting for its final permit to expand outside of San Francisco, therefore subjecting Leap to looser state regulations rather than stricter city ones. However, until that expansion was given the okay, neither the PUC nor the City was regulating Leap, with each pointing to the other as responsible.
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