Justin Fox, Columnist

Horrors! Uber and Lyft Are Convenient

They've added to street traffic and miles traveled -- but it also means more people are going somewhere.

October 16, 2017 at 1:30 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft appear to increase the number of miles traveled by car in cities where they are heavily used, as well as reduce public-transportation usage, according to a University of California at Davis study released last week.1507898918519

Yeah, isn't that weird? You make it easier and cheaper for people to take rides in cars, and more people take rides in cars.