Uber bus just around the corner on post-pandemic US public transit map


A woman and a child board a Via ride-sharing van, which recently began operating in partnership with the city-run bus system in Jersey City, New Jersey, US. From the streets of Utah’s Salt Lake City to Missouri’s St. Louis and New Jersey’s Jersey City, more than 120 US transit agencies have launched collaborations with ride-hail firms in the past two years, data shows. — Reuters

WARWICK, Rhode Island: Urban transportation’s transformation has shifted up a gear as the coronavirus crisis turns travel habits on their head, with Uber making allies of public transit systems by now offering to sell them its software expertise.

This means Marin County’s Transportation Authority will next month allow passengers in the San Francisco Bay area to book a trip through the Uber app, but rather than someone’s private car they will ride wheelchair-accessible public vans.

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