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0 pointsmanigandham7y ago0 comments

It's still traffic to get into and out of those spaces. It's more cars on the road, whether parked or not, which means delays given limited throughput.

Having a shared Uber pool encourages the actual namesake of "ride-sharing" and gets multiple people using the same cars, hopefully at the same time, or at least waiting on the street where they take up much less space than a car. Even a small amount of passenger pooling and avoiding the inefficient parking movement can make a massive difference in road throughput

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Retric7y ago

You can’t defend Uber by reference to Uber pool when most Uber rides are not shared. If you want more busses that’s cool, they really help but having a few cars with a couple extra passengers occasionally does little.

That said if you want to limit Uber to always using Uber pool you are going to get strong objections.

manigandhamOP7y ago

It was referring to a "pool" of cars. And yes I can defend it because the official Uber Pool is still a non-zero amount compared to individuals using their own cars. Remember your first post claimed that parking spaces are not at street level even though that's not true, and entrances do have to be at street level, creating bottlenecks. Reduction in total extra cars on the road and reduced traffic to get to parking can lead to significant changes.

Retric7y ago

> a non-zero amount

An irrelevant non-zero. Over the last 5 years Uber added vastly more miles driven in congested areas which is the only important measurement in terms of increasing congestion. NYC traffic's average MPH is down and it's ride sharing's fault.

Lack of new Taxi medallions means it's not Taxi's fault. Their has been no increase in street level parking it can't make things worse. Uber on the other hand adds cars to the road above and beyond the limits of street level parking or even any parking which limits normal drivers.

PS: As you have not countered my argument I can only assume you countered the point that Uber is making congestion worse.

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0 pointsmanigandham7y ago0 comments

It's still traffic to get into and out of those spaces. It's more cars on the road, whether parked or not, which means delays given limited throughput.

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Retric7y ago

That said if you want to limit Uber to always using Uber pool you are going to get strong objections.

manigandhamOP7y ago

Retric7y ago

> a non-zero amount

PS: As you have not countered my argument I can only assume you countered the point that Uber is making congestion worse.

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