The cost of online taxi services in the Chicago area has risen dramatically.
Uber, Lyft and other online taxi services, which are popular for their “cheap and convenient” services, have seen a significant drop in the number of online taxi drivers in the Chicago area due to the double impact of the New Crown (Chinese Communist virus) epidemic and frequent carjacking incidents, which has directly pushed up the price of rides. Uber from home to Rush Street downtown, a single trip for about $9, now take the same route to pay $45,” said the user.
Alice, a passenger who lives in the South Loop, complained that the cost of a ride from home to Rush Street downtown was about $9 at the end of the previous year, and in February this year, the fare for the same route was $21, and in early May the fare was $45, and the waiting time was twice as long as before. “Alice, who has been vaccinated, said that as the epidemic eases, she is now taking the bus again for $2.50 a trip.
The Chinese who stopped driving Uber from March last year said that at that time, considering the risk of taking strangers every day, plus most people were at home to avoid the epidemic at that time, sometimes they could not receive two orders of business even if they went out for a day, so they decided to stop driving, and in May last year, they opened up the online taxi to apply for unemployment benefits, plus there were additional federal government benefits, so there was no shortage of basic living expenses, especially since online taxis were frequently robbed in Chicago, and he planned to finish receiving unemployment benefits by the end of September He plans to receive unemployment benefits until the end of September before returning to work.
Joe Schwieterman, a transportation expert at DePaul University, said that the business model of online dating relies on the drivers to take the initiative to work, and there is no control over whether the drivers go out to carry passengers.
As fares continue to rise, some customers have switched to buses, while others have returned to cabs after finding that the current cab fares are more reasonable than those of online cabs.
Hani Mahmassani, director of Northwestern University’s Center for Transportation, said that until more drivers return to driving online, I’m afraid the fares won’t go down.
In this regard, the network car company Lyft said that the company is increasing to provide incentives to drivers, hoping that they can return to the market service, the network car company also mentioned that the average hourly pay for driving a network car has been raised to $ 31.
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