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It's interesting. Lyft originally was 100% focused on car pooling. I wonder if the time is better now for this type of offering.
Technically that was Zimride, the original startup by the same two founders but is actually a separate entity.
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It wouldn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
This doesnt really explain why it wouldn't. In fact it talks about the exact opposite where people are choosing cars over public transport
Basically widening roads doesn't decrease traffic in the long term. This is why LA and Houston and other car dominated places have wider roads than anywhere else and terrible traffic.
Google "Induced Demand" and you will find a ton of articles about this such as this one. http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/11/californias-dot-admit...
The core issue is that automobile oriented infrastructure infrastructure isn't very efficient at moving people in the first place. If you're going to spend a lot of money to increase transportation capacity, extra car lanes is a poor choice.
I was commuting between SF & Sunnyvale a year ago for a couple of months. For the whole time I tried to find a service connecting people for carpooling. Found several but none of them had a meaningful number of active users. It was mind boggling to sit, day after day, in stalled traffic on the 101 with two empty carpool lanes on my left and four lanes filled with lone drivers all the way between San Jose and San Fran…
I wonder if traffic would improve if didn't take away lanes for carpooling.
Scoop has salespeople out in force in Oakland -- waiting in line at the DMV some lady from Scoop was lobbying all the bored people in line hard.
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This doesnt really explain why it wouldn't. In fact it talks about the exact opposite where people are choosing cars over public transport
More lanes means a temporary decrease in congestion, which incentivizes people to choose automobiles as their primary form of transportation, which fills up the roads again. Repeat this cycle endlessly as roads are widened. Basically widening roads doesn't decrease traffic in the long term. This is why LA and Houston and other car dominated places have wider roads than anywhere else and terrible traffic. Google "Indu…