Taxi Spending Surges While Transit Stays Flat

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By Aaron ShortSep 27, 2019, 7:35 am143 pts
The transit crisis continues: Uber and Lyft have become so popular that Americans spent four times as much money on taxi trips last year as they did in 2013 and almost as much as they budget for public buses and trains, federal labor statistics show. American households splurged $71.71 on taxis in 2018, up from…

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