Student Association president Aysha Seedat updated the assembly on her progress in bringing an Uber-like service to the Syracuse area at SA’s Monday night meeting in the Hall of Languages.

Seedat said she has received confirmation from the student government at the University at Buffalo that it will support an initiative to legalize ride-hailing services, like Uber, in central and upstate New York. Seedat said that the student government at the University at Albany and the Rochester Intercollegiate Council, which Seedat said includes student governments at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester, plan to support the initiative.

Currently, ride-hailing services are illegal in New York, except in New York City. But Seedat has been hoping to write a joint proposal with other student governments to change that, as she believes it is something that would benefit students.