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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4971426" data-attributes="member: 56035">at this point in time when i post articles like this, i get crickets from the right wingers who say there is no alt to capitalism[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/driver-owned-uber-alternative-looks-to-crowdfund-1-million-1.1629044[/URL]Currently, there are 3,400 driver-members, many of whom plan to invest themselves.Drivers have long called for their own worker-run service, and have been very receptive to the cooperative, says co-founder and longtime driver Ken Lewis. “Once we started to call up and tell drivers that we were doing this and sent out messages to drivers, everybody came on and we grew rather quickly,” he said.The competitive prices that companies like Uber and Lyft once offered have surged, with a ride costing customers 53% more in June than before the pandemic,&nbsp; according to Rakuten Intelligence. These soaring costs could make Co-op Ride more appealing , said Leslie Zhang, a rideshare user who lives on the Lower East Side. “I think Uber and Lyft are kind of at this breaking point where they can’t offer the same dirt cheap prices they were a couple years ago,” Zhang said.Read More: Uber, Lyft Driver Shortage Boosts Business for New York’s TaxisBut Zhang said there were other reasons she would continue to use the coop service even if it was the same price as its more entrenched rivals. “Knowing that more of the money is going directly to the drivers would sort of be that incentivizing push,” Zhang said.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 4971426, member: 56035"] at this point in time when i post articles like this, i get crickets from the right wingers who say there is no alt to capitalism [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/driver-owned-uber-alternative-looks-to-crowdfund-1-million-1.1629044[/URL] Currently, there are 3,400 driver-members, many of whom plan to invest themselves. Drivers have long called for their own worker-run service, and have been very receptive to the cooperative, says co-founder and longtime driver Ken Lewis. “Once we started to call up and tell drivers that we were doing this and sent out messages to drivers, everybody came on and we grew rather quickly,” he said. The competitive prices that companies like Uber and Lyft once offered have surged, with a ride costing customers 53% more in June than before the pandemic, according to Rakuten Intelligence. These soaring costs could make Co-op Ride more appealing , said Leslie Zhang, a rideshare user who lives on the Lower East Side. “I think Uber and Lyft are kind of at this breaking point where they can’t offer the same dirt cheap prices they were a couple years ago,” Zhang said. Read More: Uber, Lyft Driver Shortage Boosts Business for New York’s Taxis But Zhang said there were other reasons she would continue to use the coop service even if it was the same price as its more entrenched rivals. “Knowing that more of the money is going directly to the drivers would sort of be that incentivizing push,” Zhang said. [/QUOTE]

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