Editorial Board
Cities Need Data From Uber and Lyft
Ride services operate on public streets and should cooperate in efforts to improve them.
Keeping records on the road.
Photographer: Angel Navarrete/BloombergWith the ouster of Travis Kalanick, its founder and chief executive, Uber has vowed to mend an array of broken and frayed relationships. It can start with cities. It can focus on the sharing of some basic information. Its competitors, including Lyft, can join in this project, too.
App-based ride services have changed the urban world, often for the good. San Francisco already has some 45,000 Uber and Lyft drivers cruising the city's busiest areas. In New York City, as of last fall, ride-service companies carried 15 million passengers a month -- a tripling of ridership in a year and a half.