Uber
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
Lime Just Became the Biggest Micromobility Company in the World
Let's unpack last week's Uber-Lime deal. It's not as weird as it sounds.
May 11, 2020
Taxpayers Are Bailing Out Uber and Lyft — Again
Uber and other tech taxi companies pride themselves on disrupting industries — but now taxpayers are bailing them out.
March 26, 2020
The Broken Promises of the Rideshare Revolution
Uber, Lyft and their brethren promised to revolutionize mobility forever. Instead, they just exaggerated the worst aspects of car culture.
March 2, 2020
Fees On Rideshare Help Fund Boston Sidewalks
January 27, 2020
Trump Administration Keeps Hands Off Self-Driving Cars
At the annual Las Vegas tech geek fest on Wednesday, USDOT Secretary Elaine Chao refused to put a leash on driverless car technology.
January 8, 2020
Federal Government Doing Nothing On AVs
Right now, Big Auto is developing technologies that will affect every single person in this country — and the federal government is sitting on its hands.
November 26, 2019
A Key Lens for Lori Lightfoot’s Ride-Hail Tax Plan
November 22, 2019
SEE IT! We Talk to Mayor Lightfoot — On the Bus!
November 20, 2019
