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…went modestly viral, coming close to a pageview record for this seven year old blog. Uber quickly pulled the offending ad. Again, as I laid out here, if Uber and…

…to more like $5 for an effective fixed route service. MBTA is now testing using taxis — or in the future, taxi competitors like Uber and Lyft — in the…

…Uber. It was an easy choice. Although the Lyft and Uber products are the same — often provided by the same cars and drivers — Lyft’s founders were credibly supportive…

…paragraph is on-topic, and it’s evidence of how thoroughly Uber and Lyft have succeeded in owning large parts of the bandwidth of public chatter. Roving the internet, and lacking any…

…architects and developers and other elite voices telling us that rail “matters” and buses don’t. Now we have Uber, Lyft, and all their peers. Their role is partly helpful —…

The new private players in urban transportation have learned to be careful about appearing to oppose public transit — at least, most of the time. Uber is making a point…

…philosophy, or public policy — is about a 25th Century world where automated flying Uber has crushed all other modes of transport, creating a dreaded concentration of monopoly power from…

… by thinking about people you know who are driving for Uber or doing poorly paid jobs they hate, and asking if they’d have better lives as bus or train…