Uber and Lyft Are Offering Free or Discounted Rides to the Polls
Dallas County has been doing all right getting to the polls so far in 2018, but if you’ve yet to cast your ballot, the rideshare giants of the world can make your life a touch easier. Uber and Lyft are...
View ArticleLyft Unveils a Low-Income Discount Plan for People in Dallas’ Most Prosperous...
Lyft’s new plan to allow low-income Dallas residents a cheap monthly scooter service sounds great. It sounds great. There are slices of our city far away from public transit stations, which leaves...
View ArticleIn Deep Ellum, You’ll Soon Need to Catch Your Uber at a Staging Area
As too many Dallasites have experienced, trying to drive from one side of Deep Ellum to another on any given Friday or Saturday night could take as long as 25 minutes. Constant stops from Uber and Lyft...
View ArticleDeep Ellum’s Rideshare Staging Experiment Begins Tonight
Tonight, folks in Deep Ellum will notice something different about their neighborhood. Hopefully, it’ll be that even as the tipsy Thursday crowd grows more dense, the streets will remain much clearer...
View ArticleDeep Ellum’s Rideshare Station Program Gets an Update
Yesterday when I wrote about the meeting of minds over the safety of Deep Ellum, I left out one item of tangential importance. Coming in July, the Deep Ellum Foundation will institute some changes to...
View ArticleInjuries Pile Up as Dallas’ Day of Scooter Reckoning Approaches
Last week, the City Council gave Transportation Director Michael Rogers’ staff more time to negotiate with scooter companies over new city regulations. That means that we’ll have to wait until March to...
View ArticleFriday Poll: How Do You Feel About Scooters?
Earlier this week when I wrote about scooters, I made the point that despite their popularity, they still risk disappearing the way bikeshare did. This is not something the city is necessarily saying...
View ArticleAre We Fighting a Losing Battle With Scooter Companies?
An interesting read popped out of CityLab yesterday predicting the future of the electric scooter industry. In mid-February, the city’s Department of Transportation is set to bring to committee the...
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