Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Ride-hail

Study: Taking an App Taxi More than Doubles Your Roadway Impact

By Kea Wilson | Jan 25, 2021 | No Comments

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.

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Study: E-Taxis Increase Private Car Ownership in Many Cities

By Kea Wilson | Jan 8, 2021 | No Comments

"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.

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Myth-Buster: Uber and Lyft Aren’t Addressing Transit Deserts

By John Greenfield | Nov 25, 2020 | No Comments

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.

Photo of an Uber dropoff in a bike lane in San Francisco by Roger Rudick, Streetsblog SF

Op-Ed: California’s Prop 22 Is Not Only Bad for Drivers, it’s Bad for Traffic and the Environment

By Adam Stocker | Oct 5, 2020 | No Comments

The measure would define how app-based drivers are compensated and could have lasting traffic and environmental consequences.

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Talking Headways Podcast: Uber’s Transit Moves

By Jeff Wood | Oct 1, 2020 | No Comments

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.

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Human Driver of ‘Driverless’ Car Charged in 2018 Ped Death

By Kea Wilson | Sep 17, 2020 | No Comments

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.

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