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Lyft reveals surprising results from its ’Ditch Your Car Challenge’

sudshr47 December 13, 2018

For 30 days in October and November, 2,000 people across 35 North American cities vowed to get around without driving their own vehicle — with a little help from ride-hailing app Lyft.

The Ditch Your Car Challenge offered personal driving alternatives, paid for by Lyft. More than 130,000 offered to participate in the challenge. In the end, only 1.5 percent of those were chosen to receive these credits for a month of commuting:

$300 Lyft Shared ride credit or Lyft all-access plan (if Shared rides weren’t available in your city)
$45 bike-share credit
$100 Zipcar car-sharing credit
$105 public transit monthly pass Read more…

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sudshr47 November 17, 2018 Startups

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How issues of microtransit, congestion and parking are closing in on cities

sudshr47 November 11, 2018

Earlier this week in a new experimental newsletter I’ve been helping Danny Crichton on, we briefly discussed transit pundit Jarrett Walker’s article in The Atlantic arguing against the view that ridesharing and microtransit will be the future of mass transit. Instead, his thesis is that a properly operated and well-resourced bus system is much more […]