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Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers::Lyft and Uber threatened to stop doing business in Minneapolis after the city council adopted a new rule Thursday that would set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers.

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[–] captainlezbian 66 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Cool, Columbus Ohio’s bus system offers a subsidized version of Uber and while it sucks in service area the idea and price both make perfect sense for Minneapolis to adopt.

Rideshare apps aren’t the solution, effective and adaptive public transportation is. Public transit based rideshare is a great way to fill in the gaps of bus and train systems and to push them to fill their own gaps.

And when all else fails, unionized taxi services.

Sometimes Silicon Valley feels like the monorail man

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes Silicon Valley feels like the monorail man

Just don't look up what they're planning to build for the airport connection in San Jose...

[–] macrocephalic 4 points 1 year ago

Proper ride sharing would be awesome. It's love if I could come to work by using an app to find someone going the same way as me and getting a lift.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sometimes Silicon Valley feels like the monorail man

https://youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY

[–] afraid_of_zombies 2 points 1 year ago

Public transit based rideshare is a great way to fill in the gaps of bus and train systems and to push them to fill their own gaps.

That is what I am hoping for. I don't know how many times I see an empty bus or would save so much time if I could just get from one local station to another instead of going all the way to a main hub and back. The ride share companies are collecting all this data on where populations really need to go. If we could somehow use them for last leg of distance, route bridges, and filling in lines that are over served.

I am not sure what exactly the best way to structure this but we do have policy experts so that is there job. Some form of public-private partnership.