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Showing posts with label taxi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taxi. Show all posts
Friday, May 20, 2016

The safety and comfort of ridesharing

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"It’s so 2015," Vogue writer Karley Sciortino's friend said to her in Los Angeles last year. "This girl I know just fucke...
Friday, February 26, 2016

The Via experience

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Here in New York when people talk about "microtransit," they usually mean Uberpool or Lyftline , and those are the services I'...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

The Uberpool/Lyftline experience

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I wrote last year about how the current challenge for transit in cities is not building ridership but making room on transit for all the peo...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Our stratified transportation system

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A lot of people are nervous about the possibility that privately-run electronic taxi-hailing systems like Uber and Lyft could take over func...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Could Lyft and Uber reduce congestion?

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Charles Komanoff has created an open-source multimodal transportation model for New York City, available for free download as an Excel sprea...
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Sunday, October 4, 2015

Expanding transit and taxis

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I wrote recently that by making taxi service more convenient and flexible, electronic taxi hailing services like Uber and Lyft have the pot...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

The value of Uber and Lyft today

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Over the past few weeks in New York we heard a lot of overheated rhetoric about electronic taxi hailing apps like Uber and Lyft, particularl...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Transit vs. e-hailing and transit vs. cars

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Recently I wrote about some discussion from Timothy B. Lee and Chris Plano about the possibility that "ride-hailing could actually be ...
Friday, July 10, 2015

No, e-carpooling will not replace fixed-route buses

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A lot of people have been talking about "microtransit" lately - sometimes meaning shared e-hailing services like Uberpool and Lyft...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Twenty dollars, same as in town

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This has been a bad week for anyone who cares about reducing car use in New York. On Friday morning, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the lau...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

What I would pay for a comfortable ride

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Three years ago I wrote a series about comfort, class and transportation. I observed that when it comes to transit, many segments of the po...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

What is congestion?

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A lot of people really care about congestion. A major source of capital funding in this country is the federal Congestion Management and Air...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Independent Medallion Driver Option

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Here's an email I got from the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which is stuck in the Internet of 2002 with Corey Bearak: To Al...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Forbidden Taxi Apps

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I got an interesting email today from the Taxi and Limousine Commission: To All Interested Parties: Industry Notice #11-15 July 1, 2011...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

If I had 10,000,000,000...

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... I would buy out John Aston and every one of the current taxi medallion owners who believe they've made an investment in "the ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

When taxis are too cheap

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As I wrote last month, taxi service has "an availability problem in Manhattan at peak periods. During rush hour in the rain you can sta...
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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Vested interests

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On Friday , I quoted Ruben Diaz, Jr. ("the Reasonable") about the City's borough taxi proposal: "We want to find a way to...
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Screwing the livery cab drivers

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Before I say anything more about taxis in New York, I should point out that I have a financial interest in this issue. I have a business re...
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Friday, June 3, 2011

Why not just expand the yellow cabs?

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Last week I discussed the City's plan to add 1,500 new citywide taxi medallions and 6,000 new "borough taxi" medallions that ...
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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Why new medallions?

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We've seen the problems with the taxi system as it is . The Bloomberg administration's "Borough taxi" proposal is pretty...
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