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MOST OF US use Uber, Lyft, or a similar ride-hailing app. The ubiquity of ride hailing is inevitable. Even as some progressive cities like Austin have tried to create trade barriers, it represents too good a value proposition for users to be held at bay for long.
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Ibid.
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Jude Cramer and Alan B. Krueger, “Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business in the Case of Uber,” NBER Working Papers 22083, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2016.
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Adam Brinklow, “Lyft, Uber Commit 64 percent of Downtown SF Traffic Violations,” CurbedSF (September 26, 2017), https://sf.curbed.com/2017/9/26/16367440/lyft-uber-traffic-citations-sfpd-board-supervisors.
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“Evidence that Uber, Lyft Reduce Car Ownership,” University of Michigan News (August 10, 2017), http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/25008-evidence-that-uber-lyft-reduce-car-ownership.
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Peter Henderson, “Some Uber and Lyft Riders Are Giving Up Their Own Cars: Reuters/Ipsos Poll,” Reuters (May 25, 2017), https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-rideservices-poll/some-uber-and-lyft-riders-are-giving-up-their-own-cars-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN18L1DA.
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Conversation with Alejandro Henao, August 17, 2017.
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Speck, J. (2018). Don’t Mistake Uber for Transit. In: Walkable City Rules. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-899-2_25
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