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Rendering of a short stretch of bus lanes planned near the 79th Street Red Line station as part of the Bus Priority Zones program.

Lori’s fair ride-hail tax plan needs bolder action to improve CTA bus service

By Courtney Cobbs | Nov 13, 2019 | No Comments

Lowering the tax on shared trips, the kind most South and West siders take, is a good idea. But more of the revenue should be used for CTA upgrades, including more robust bus lanes.

That misleading Crain’s op-ed by Uber proxies against the fair ride-hail tax plan, annotated

By John Greenfield | Nov 11, 2019 | No Comments

Claiming that all Uber and Lyft passengers would see a 300% tax increase was just one of the many false or misleading statements in the piece.

How Lori’s Uber and Lyft tax plan will help lower-income and working-class Chicagoans

By John Greenfield | Nov 10, 2019 | No Comments

The ride-hail companies are trying to convince Chicagoans that the new fee structure would hurt poor people, but actually the opposite is true.

A vision beyond Uber: We don’t need to plan our transportation system around cars

By Lynda Lopez | Nov 7, 2019 | No Comments

There is power in movement and we aren’t reaching our full potential when we keep shaping our world around cars.

Sun-Times op-ed against ride-hail tax reflects Uber and Lyft’s astroturfing campaign

By John Greenfield | Nov 6, 2019 | No Comments

When claims that the proposal is inequitable are coming from someone whose financial relationship to a ride-hail company is unclear, take them with a grain of salt.

No, Lori’s plan to make private ride-hail trips more expensive isn’t regressive

By John Greenfield | Nov 5, 2019 | No Comments

Ride-hailing slows down buses and cannibalizes CTA ridership. Reducing private trips while making shared trips cheaper will benefit South and West side residents, who mostly use shared trips.

City’s ride-hailing report quantifies the damage Uber and Lyft are doing to Chicago

By Lynda Lopez | Oct 25, 2019 | No Comments

25,807 ride-hailing trips are taken downtown during an average morning rush, and the CTA has seen 48 million fewer rides each year since Uber launched here since 2015.

Lori Lightfoot presents her 2020 budget proposal to the City Council. Photo: Heidi Zeiger, city of Chicago

Lightfoot at budget address: Uber and Lyft’s “essentially free rein in Chicago” is over

By John Greenfield | Oct 23, 2019 | No Comments

"I reject – and you should be deeply skeptical – of the false narrative ride-share companies are spreading," Lightfoot said in her speech.

The new ride-hailing taxes will mean that more Uber and Lyft trips will be shared, cutting vehicle miles traveled. Photo: Uber

Sign Active Trans’ petition supporting fair ride-hailing fees and more transit funding

By John Greenfield | Oct 22, 2019 | No Comments

Let the mayor and your alderman know you want to discourage solo and downtown Uber and Lyft trips and speed up buses.

JUMP bikes blocking a sidewalk in Seattle. Photo: Steve Ringman, Seattle Times

Call the Wahmbulance! Uber Files a Spiteful Lawsuit Claiming the Divvy/Lyft Deal Is Unfair

By John Greenfield | Aug 5, 2019 | 20 Comments

Uber's lawsuit against the Divvy expansion deal is a fairly obvious case of sour grapes that seems unlikely to be much of a speed bump for the Divvy expansion.

The main reason that the Uber trip from Randolph/Michigan to O'Hare's Terminal 1 was 11 minutes faster than the Blue Line journey was that the CTA rider wasted time heading towards Terminal 3. Image: Chicago Tribune

Sure, Uber Is Faster Than CTA for Getting to O’Hare — If the CTA Rider Gets Lost

By John Greenfield | Jul 17, 2019 | 26 Comments

The Tribune reported that an Uber trip to O'Hare took 11 minutes less than doing the same journey via CTA. But the online version of the article didn't explain that the longer Blue Line trip included getting lost at the airport.

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