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Do Uber and Lyft INCREASE Vegas traffic congestion?

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  1. NickPappageorgio

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    Some people (cab companies) might start forwarding that idea.

    Per the article though the Nevada DOT doesn't seem to think so. In large part because Vegas doesn't have a ton of good public transportation.

    The original study was sourced in Boston and NYC. It's a little silly, but it's what happens anytime something takes away from "public transportation, biking or walking" activities that only small slices of the population in most cities do.
     
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    Maybe depends on what ride-share drivers do between rides. Cabs sit at cab stands, so they're not on the road, and they only have to drive as far as the front of the line to pick up the next fare. Rental cars are parked most of the time.

    What does a ride-share driver do in between rides? Drive around, do circles around a hotel, or sit in a parking lot across the street?

    If there are more ride-share drivers on the road than cabs taken off, then there's a net increase in cars, the question is, what are they doing?
     
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    New York is also an enormous outlier in that it doesn't have actual "ridesharing". Putting aside the fact that many people in New York are already dependent on public transportation and don't own cars (only 23% of households in Manhattan own a car), all Uber/Lyft vehicles are fully licensed by the Taxi & Limousine Commission and have to affiliate with a base just like regular black car services do. Here, Uber/Lyft really is just a different technology platform for hailing rides; it's not like most other parts of the country where it's basically a guy in his car.

    I agree that many Uber/Lyft drivers are too dependent on staring at their phones, which is dangerous, but that's not an inherent problem with ridesharing, and could likely be solved in large part by the companies updating their apps to include better voice features. Otherwise, the complaint about "frequent stops by Uber and Lyft drivers for pick-ups, drop-offs and to check their apps for details" seems like nonsense. At least on the Strip, Uber and Lyft aren't stopping any more frequently, or anywhere differently, than the cabs are.
     
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