by State House News Service | May 28, 2021
The Senate revived its push to increase fees on ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft in its fiscal year 2022 budget bill, and with roadway congestion starting to return in force, transportation reform activists are hopeful the House will join their colleagues from across the hall.
by State House News Service | Jun 25, 2020
The growth of rideshare trips taken in Massachusetts decelerated in 2019, but the roughly 91.1 million trips taken with services like Lyft and Uber generated more than $18.2 million in assessment fees for the state and local governments.
by State House News Service | Jan 24, 2020
Gov. Charlie Baker won praise from Democratic lawmakers for targeting ride-hailing companies as a source for new MBTA funding, but the idea riled the services themselves.
by State House News Service | Jan 22, 2020
A day after blaming ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft for clogging roads and operating with “little oversight,” Gov. Charlie Baker is proposing to hike the per-ride fees on such services by 80 cents and to use much of the new funding to help the MBTA.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jan 13, 2020
Boston is expanding a program that forces drivers for ride-hailing apps to pick up and drop off fares in specific spots instead of double-parking and clogging traffic after initial results showed success.
by State House News Service | Oct 4, 2019
The city of Boston used money it received from assessments on the roughly 35 million ride-for-hire trips that originated in the city in 2017 to rebuild miles of sidewalk, restore lane markings, redesign key intersections and add bike share stations.
by Rick Dimino | Aug 4, 2019
While TNCs are now an established part of our transportation ecosystem, we need to focus on influencing their role in being ultimately a contributor to enhanced shared mobility, congestion relief and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
by State House News Service | Jul 29, 2019
The MBTA went without $23 million last year in potential fare revenue from riders who decamped from the ailing public transit network for ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft, according to a new report that also put a big estimate on the net carbon footprint of the companies.
by The Associated Press | May 8, 2019
Drivers for ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft in Boston and cities around the world are turning off their apps to protest what they say are declining wages at a time when both companies are raking in billions of dollars from investors.
by Rick Dimino | Mar 31, 2019
Elected officials, the business community and the transportation stakeholder community all are in agreement that Massachusetts needs to act soon – and in a comprehensive manner – to address our current needs and secure our future economic prosperity.
by State House News Service | Mar 28, 2019
As Beacon Hill looks to tackle some of the transportation issues often blamed for congestion, traffic and unreliable service, House Speaker Robert DeLeo is pushing employers and business groups to “articulate the policies that it can unite behind.”
by State House News Service | Mar 22, 2019
Massachusetts Port Authority officials are weighing a plan they say will reduce congestion in East Boston and at Logan Airport and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
by State House News Service | Feb 20, 2019
Residents, lawmakers and transit officials agree: thanks to several compounding factors, the congestion in East Boston has reached a critical mass.
by Rick Dimino | Jan 6, 2019
The report’s call for a new finance plan to support transit needs is an encouraging step forward and should build momentum for action on legislation in 2019.
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 5, 2018
The saying goes that if you want fewer cars and traffic jams on the roads, all you need is a recession.
by State House News Service | Jan 20, 2017
Travelers at Logan Airport will gain at least one new app-based means of ground transportation on Wednesday, Feb. 1.
by William F. Lyons Jr. | Jan 1, 2017
After several years of posturing and wrangling, the commonwealth enacted legislation in August to regulate ride sharing companies – also known as Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) – much more closely.
by Reuters | Aug 22, 2016
Massachusetts is preparing to levy a 5-cent fee per trip on ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft and spend the money on the traditional taxi industry, a subsidy that appears to be the first of its kind in the United States.
by State House News Service | Aug 8, 2016
Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday afternoon signed into law what he described as the strongest regulatory framework in the country for app-based ride-for-hire services like Uber and Lyft.
by The Associated Press | Jun 30, 2016
The Massachusetts Senate has passed a bill to...