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Zohran Mamdani hints he will continue taking on delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash
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Cities typically offer public transport, so I do wonder what it would it would take for a city to run their own ride-sharing service. There are various open source Uber alternatives, but not sure how good any of them are. Marketing and getting people to use something like this would be the hard part for any independent organization, but a city government should have a much easier time getting people to use it.
The state of Massachusetts runs a paratransit system for people who can't use public transit. It's expensive and not great. They've started to offload some ridership to Uber and Lyft where it makes sense, e.g. people without wheelchairs.
Government agencies partnering with Uber and Lyft unfortunately does seem to be pretty common, which goes in the opposite direction of creating less exploitative alternatives.
Not if the government sets the fees and wages in the contract and tells them to fuck off and goes with the competitor if they are in breach.
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