Posts tagged Ride Hailing
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Breakfast links: Volunteers needed
The new way to pay fares; Get dense; DC General gets a playground; Street Sense human cameras?; Dig into DC’s past; Not a giant rebate; No more Hailo; So close yet so far; Bike crashes up and down; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who pays what
Price to play; Not most expensive?; When growth doesn’t pay; DC still undecided; Can’t cross the street to school; Stop for school buses; Make it look traditional; What’s next in transportation; And…. Keep reading…
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Regulators want to create a new app for taxis to compete with Uber. Would it succeed?
Taxi operators have complained that companies like Uber and Lyft are not competing on a “level playing field” with more heavily-regulated taxis. In response, DC Taxicab Commission Chairman Ron Linton has suggested, in effect, a way for the taxis to compete with Uber: Run their own Uber-like app. Would it work? The proposal originated when some (as-yet-unnamed)… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro ridership
Metro ridership is down; Where do Silver Line riders go?; Yellow Line or more lanes?; Too much traffic at National; Fewer taxi rules in MoCo; Pedestrian safety in College Park; If bikes were cars; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hail, taxis
The government Uber; Cabbies demand “justice”; Actual ridesharing; How people ride Silver; Affordable housing on track; Fairfax food trucks; Washington will flood more; Trains in trouble; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Public housing redevelopment
A new neighborhood in Brentwood; Empty in Anacostia; FBI not near the Metro?; Flat is where it’s at; Cheh wants Uber legal; Minimum wage to $8.40; Purple Line OK in Bethesda?; Buses to the curb, please; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stay safe
“Intersection of Doom” improves; Streetcar safety for students; FBI for statehood; DHS HQ a go; Public finance for MoCo campaigns; Penn Ave, AdMo are great; MARTA on the upswing; Preposterous Purple Line posturing; And…. Keep reading…
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Deregulate Uber, but require transparency
How do you deregulate a transportation service like taxis? The popularity of competitors such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar has stirred calls to loosen regulations and allow innovative business models. That’s good. The question now is what role the government should play. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taxi money
Driven out; Hailo for less-o; A freeway revolt in the making?; Cycletracks can reduce car congestion; Transportation is key to sustainability; Will garden cities help housing costs?; How to be polite; Memorial for freed slaves; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: DC’s Olympic bid
DC cements Olympic intent; High-speed rail opportunity; Gunfire near DC schools; New Eisenhower Memorial design; Good marks for cycling; MoCo vs. Uber; London’s bike highways; Small town living; And…. Keep reading…