Uber and some transportation experts once predicted that getting a ride with the tap of an app would help reduce traffic and increase riders’ use of public transportation. I wanted to go a little deeper today into what went wrong with the promise of on-demand rides and what we could learn from it. And most research is showing that the ride services have also been a significant reason for declining ridership of public transportation, especially buses. Uber and Lyft have said that people driving themselves are the biggest sources of traffic. That is true, but it doesn’t explain the surge in traffic that the services have added to cities.

Source: New York Times March 29, 2021 17:37 UTC