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Lyft will pay you $550 to ditch your car for a month

Andrew J. Hawkins

July 31, 2018 |

The Verge |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Ride-sharing company Lyft is testing an experiment: they are offering $550 to 100 city residents who agree to give up their own car for one month. The $550 will come in the form of Lyft ride credit, a bike-share stipend, money toward Zipcar, and the rest toward the local public transportation train system. This is part of a greater discussion over whether personal car ownership will become obsolete; Lyft is betting the answer is yes. The company argues for the environmental and economic benefits of ride-sharing, and this test will help support that claim.

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