Scoop gets Bay Area cities to pick up the tab for carpooling
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#2It's interesting. Lyft originally was 100% focused on car pooling. I wonder if the time is better now for this type of offering.
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#3I 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 Francisco.
Re: Scoop gets Bay Area cities to pick up the tab for carpooling
#4I 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 rarely commute/go over to Silicon Valley from Santa Cruz these days, but friends that do say Highway 85 is basically roached from 7am to 8-9pm.
If I were to look around, I would consider mostly remote options or somewhere outside the bay area.
That said, Seattle (and east of Lake Union) is basically as bad (or worse in some cases -- my experience from airport) than the bay area.
Re: Scoop gets Bay Area cities to pick up the tab for carpooling
#5Scoop 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.
Re: Scoop gets Bay Area cities to pick up the tab for carpooling
#6It'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.
Re: Scoop gets Bay Area cities to pick up the tab for carpooling
#7I 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.
Re: Scoop gets Bay Area cities to pick up the tab for carpooling
#8I 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.
It wouldn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Re: Scoop gets Bay Area cities to pick up the tab for carpooling
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if traffic would improve if didn't take away lanes for carpooling.
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
Re: Scoop gets Bay Area cities to pick up the tab for carpooling
#10I 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…
These days, even the carpool lanes are full, given that electric cars and even hybrids before a certain year have unlimited legal access even without any passengers.
At any rate, I see people abusing it all the time, countless people driving illegally in the car pool lane even though nobody else is in their car -- I see at least one person everyday doing this.