Recent Streetsblog SF posts about car hailing

Car-Hail Assists BART Passengers

By Roger Rudick | Mar 21, 2016 | 2 Comments

BART’s woes continued this week, with no train service this morning at the end of the Pittsburgh Bay Point line. That meant bus bridges between Pittsburg Bay Point and North Concord. But some good news came down in the early afternoon from BART’s communications department: BART will run a train every 15 minutes during commute […]

Uber and Lyft: Friend or Foe in the Battle for Livable Streets?

By Roger Rudick | Mar 4, 2016 | 44 Comments

UberPOOL, which gives Uber customers discounts to share rides, launched about a year and a half ago in San Francisco. Uber is now rolling the service out to the East Bay. UberPOOL is more affordable because the cost of the trip is shared. The fare per trip is set at up to 50 percent cheaper […]