By Rachel Yoka, CAPP, LEED AP BD+C
The reality is that the convenience of Uber has massive, city-altering effects. Cities like New York, London, and Paris are challenged like never before.
It’s not just demand at the curb, either. This New York Times opinion piece takes a deeper dive: “Ride-hailing apps have shattered boundaries by signing up drivers with livery or black-car licenses. These companies cast themselves as filling big gaps in the transportation system, and it’s true that they have been great for people in mass-transit-starved parts of the city … At the same time, traffic has slowed to a crawl, to just 8.2 miles per hour south of 60th Street in Manhattan in 2015, down from 9.4 miles per hour in 2010, according to the city’s Department of Transportation.”
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Rachel Yoka, CAPP, LEED AP BD+C, is IPI’s vice president of program development.