A new Bloomberg report information Uber and Lyft’s different partnerships with tiny regional public transportation agencies. In 2014, the local government in Pinellas Park, Florida nixed two of their least-traveled bus lines because of huge budget cuts. To compensate for that loss, the government then struck a deal with Uber to aide residents with the price of their trips along those routes. The pilot system, reports Bloomberg, gives residents a 50-percent discount with a maximum of $ 3 per trip. (I can’t speak the typical cost of an Uber ride in Pinellas Park, but $ three appears like a very minimal subsidy to me.)
