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Study: Taking An App Taxi More than Doubles Your Roadway Impact
The average Uber or Lyft customer is responsible for adding more than twice as many car miles to his city's roads as he was before he started using app-taxis to get around.
January 23, 2021
Study: E-Taxis Increase Private Car Ownership in Many Cities
"Ride-hailing" apps once lauded for their potential to help end private car ownership are actually increasing it in many cities, a new study finds.
January 8, 2021
Was 2020 The Year Driverless Cars Became Inevitable?
It may not immediately look like it, but 2020 may have been the year when autonomous vehicles became inevitable. An overview.
December 15, 2020
Myth-Buster: Uber and Lyft Aren’t Addressing Transit Deserts
Most Uber and Lyft trips aren't bolstering transportation options in transit deserts, but are being taken in majority White and more affluent neighborhoods, a new study out of Chicago reveals.
November 24, 2020
Lyft launched a new Super PAC to prevent Illinois gig workers from getting employee benefits
November 13, 2020
Prop 22 Wins in Massive Handout To Unsustainable Transportation
The controversial California bill is poised to be replicated across the nation — unless we stop it.
November 5, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: Uber’s Transit Moves
This is a must listen: A chat with an Uber honcho about avoiding the development of more car-oriented development, post-COVID, which would be a disaster.
October 1, 2020
Human Driver of ‘Driverless’ Car Charged in 2018 Ped Death
But safe streets advocates fear that by holding accountable only the person behind the wheel — rather than the other parties involved in the crash — justice won't really be done.
September 16, 2020
Strange Bedfellows: Transit Agency To Pay Uber $80K To Collect Fares
San Francisco Bay Area agency Marin Transit signed a deal that will allow its riders to buy their bus tickets directly from the Uber app — agreeing to pay the company a subscription fee as much as $80,000 over two years for the use of its software. The move raised hackles among some transit advocates, who are skeptical of the e-taxi industry's corrosive impact on public transportation ridership.
June 26, 2020
Scrapped JUMP Bikes Raise Questions About Waste in the Micromobility Industry
There were practical reasons for Uber to recycle dozens of perfectly good e-bikes — but we can still do better.
May 27, 2020
