# Prof. Arun Sundararajan on Lyft's legal battle to operate in New York City

1 Faculty News July 11, 2014>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/video/lyft-hits-roadblock-is-nyc-making-the-right-call-~QHlQW7vS~2qdTzjzuM8kg.html) -- "It's a more complicated story in New York than it is in any other American city because we rely so much more on public transportation or on taxis for our day-to-day functioning, and as a consequence, our regulatory infrastructure is so much deeper and so much more complex. And so the ways in which we regulate the analog, the old way of sharing, taxicabs, is a little more complicated than it is in, say, a city like Austin or a city like San Francisco."

[Watch the video](http://www.bloomberg.com/video/lyft-hits-roadblock-is-nyc-making-the-right-call-~QHlQW7vS~2qdTzjzuM8kg.html)