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Scooter Citations

Pilot Bike and Scooter Share Program Inspires Protest in Santa Monica

Bird and Lime launched their "Day Without A Scooter" protest this week.

August 16, 2018 - Santa Monica Daily Press

City by the Bay

Ride-Hailing Companies Agree to Tax in San Francisco

Essentially, Uber and Lyft chose a tax on rides instead of a gross-receipts tax.

August 13, 2018 - San Francisco Chronicle

Hailing a cab

Uber Drivers and Taxi Drivers Agree: Cap the Number of Ride-Hailing Vehicles in New York

Uber (and Lyft, of course) drivers and taxi drivers hope a cap on the number of ride-hailing vehicles would improve wages and reduce congestion.

August 7, 2018 - The New York Times

Marina City Chicago

Lyft Will Pay You to Ditch Your Car for 30 Days

The transportation network company Lyft is pushing residents in the city of Chicago to experiment with a carless lifestyle.

August 1, 2018 - The Verge

Transportation Network Companies

New York City Council Proposes Cap on Number of Ride-Hailing Vehicles

To support the taxi industry and reduce congestion, the New York City Council could cap the number of ride-hailing vehicles operating in the city. The cap could be a first major step toward a new era of transportation regulation.

July 30, 2018 - The New York Times

Transportation Network Companies

Study Finds UberPOOL Adds to City Traffic by Competing with the Subway

Past studies have shown how ride hailing services have added to congestion. A new study by Bruce Schaller suggests that even ride shares add to traffic, because they pull riders off of more efficient transit options like public transit.

July 29, 2018 - The Washington Post

Dockless Bike Share

There's Little ofo Left to Share

Bike share company ofo's U.S. presence shrinks to a fraction of its former self, slashing its headcount and ending service in all but three U.S. cities.

July 28, 2018 - Quartz

Citi Bike Rack

Subsidizing Bike Share for Low-Income Riders

In New York, SNAP recipients to get access to Citi Bikes at discount like DIVY riders already do in Chicago.

July 25, 2018 - Fast Company

Bike and Scooter SHare

Lyft to Add Bike and Scooter Share Options

The transportation network company is integrating new mobility options to help fill the first-last mile gap in cities.

July 21, 2018 - Medium

Electric Scooters

Big Tech's Growing Imprint on Urban Life

Examples like Elon Musk's subway plan in Chicago, app-driven electric scooters littering sidewalks, and Amazon's general preponderance may point to a tech-dominated urban future. But are localities ceding too much power to the private sector?

July 8, 2018 - The New York Times

CoGo Bikeshare

Lyft Finalizes Deal to Buy Motivate

The transportation network company has purchased the largest operators of bike share programs in the United States.

July 3, 2018 - Lyft Blog

Scooter Share

Scooter War Now a Scooter Competition

Three scooter companies, Lime, Bird and Spin, removed their scooters from the sidewalks of San Francisco earlier this month and applied, with nine other companies, for five permits to operate up to 2,500 scooters in a tightly regulated pilot program.

June 25, 2018 - San Francisco Chronicle

Transportation Network Company

Should Ride-Hailing Vehicles Reduce Emissions?

Driving an electric ride-hailing vehicle may be good for the planet but costly for the driver who may have to limit the distance of rides and search for fast-chargers. Uber is trying to help out.

June 22, 2018 - San Francisco Chronicle

Personal Mobility

Why Scooters Succeed Where Segways Failed

Segways were invented 17 years ago, but the technology feels as if it's been dead for a while. So why are scooters continuing to attract cities and investors?

June 13, 2018 - Bloomberg

Citi Bike Rack

Lyft to Buy Motivate, One of America's Largest Bike Share Providers

Motivate operates Ford Gobike in the Bay Area, Citi Bike in New York and Divvy in Chicago among other bike share fleets.

June 4, 2018 - CNET

Brightline Partners With Lyft for First-Last Mile Fix

Florida's Brightline train system only has one station in each of the three cities it currently serves, so it has sought out a unique solution to the first-last mile challenge.

May 20, 2018 - The Palm Beach Post

Uber Protest

Slowing Ride Hailing Growth in NYC

Ride hailing seems to be here to stay, but if New York's mayor gets his way it will face a major speed bump in the Big Apple.

May 7, 2018 - Next City

California State Capital

Sacramento Debuts On-Demand Transit Service

Sacramento Regional Transit's SmaRT Ride service is an on-demand public option to compete with Uber and Lyft.

May 4, 2018 - The Sacramento Bee

Downtown Las Vegas

A New Fleet of AVs Operating in Las Vegas

On May 3, the public could take rides with a new fleet of self-driving cars in Las Vegas.

May 4, 2018 - Traffic Technology Today

Montreal Transit

How Can the U.S. Grow Transit Ridership? Start by Looking North

"Canada looks a lot like much of the US, in terms of economic types, city sizes and ages, development patterns," Jarret Walker says. So why can't Americans keep pace with Canadian public transit?

April 22, 2018 - Human Transit

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