Heather Curtis
WMAL.com
WASHINGTON (WMAL) – Instead of taking buses, some people may one day be riding Uber of Lyft around Arlington. Arlington County’s been looking into the possibility of replacing bus routes that have low ridership with Uber and Lyft service.
In 2015 and 2016 county officials saw other places in the country were doing it and decided to include a study on it in the county’s transit development plan according to Pierre Holloman, Arlington County’s assistant transit bureau chief.
“This study researching other places from around the country who have implemented similar services in the last few years and to see, you know, how successful they’ve been or how they’ve been a failure, reasons why they were a success and reasons why they have failed and how we can actually take some of the best cases that we’ve found and how can we apply that here in Arlington,” Holloman said.
The results of the study will come out at the end of May.
From there Holloman said the county would need to figure out where the service would be offered and how much it would cost. He said it currently cost the county $83 dollars an hour to run a bus.
In some places that offer this service, Holloman said it’s a direct connection to a rail station or a bus stop, while in other areas it’s a connection from point A to point B.
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