{"id":4031,"date":"2016-01-19T07:18:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T12:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2016-01-18T12:53:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:53:59","slug":"lyft-lowers-prices-in-these-33-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/2016\/01\/19\/lyft-lowers-prices-in-these-33-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyft Lowers Prices in these 33 Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<article itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-scope=\"content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/lyft-lower-prices.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4032\" title=\"lyft lower prices\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/lyft-lower-prices.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/lyft-lower-prices.png 699w, https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/lyft-lower-prices-300x121.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a><\/article>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-scope=\"content\"><\/article>\n<p>Last week the internet was abuzz with the news that Uber had lowered their fares in over 100 cities. Passengers were happy, drivers were upset, and Uber hoped everything would work out in their favor. However, Lyft wasn&#8217;t going to sit back and let Uber win this battle without a fight and in a typical &#8220;anything you can do, I can do better&#8221; move, Lyft announced that they were going to lower prices as well in 33 cities.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Lyft announced their big price drop in a<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lyft.com\/posts\/start-off-2016-with-lower-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> blog post<\/a> stating , \u201cMany people make New Year\u2019s resolutions to save money, work out more, and eat out less. We don\u2019t want that to leave you standing out in the cold, though \u2014 we think that with these lower prices, Lyft can help you keep your New Year\u2019s resolutions. During the new year \u2014 and all year long \u2014 affordability matters. We always want to be the most affordable option to get where you\u2019re going. Lowering prices during a seasonally slow time, like the cold winter months, helps us make sure you can always get safe, affordable rides wherever you\u2019re going.&#8221; The new prices were said to take effect on January 15th.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Unlike Uber, Lyft insists that despite the price cuts they will still continue to maintain their position as the most generous of Rideshare employers. In a statement to <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/01\/15\/to-protect-its-turf-lyft-follows-uber-in-cutting-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Re\/code<\/a>, Lyft made it known that their company pays drivers more than any comparable service, and that drivers average hourly earnings increased 13 percent in 2015! It seems like Lyft&#8217;s kinder disposition towards their drivers is working in their favor as Lyft drivers haven&#8217;t yet started attacking the company for cutting into their wages. \u00a0 Unfortunately, the same could not be said for the relationship between Uber and their drivers.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Full List of Affected Lyft Cities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bakersfield, California<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore, Maryland<\/li>\n<li>Cincinnati, Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Cleveland, Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Colorado Springs, Colorado<\/li>\n<li>Denver, Colorado<\/li>\n<li>Detroit, Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Fresno, California<\/li>\n<li>Indianapolis, Indiana<\/li>\n<li>Jacksonville, Florida<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles, California<\/li>\n<li>Memphis, Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>Modesto, California<\/li>\n<li>Norfolk, Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Oklahoma City, Oklahoma<\/li>\n<li>Omaha, Nebraska<\/li>\n<li>Orange County, California<\/li>\n<li>Orlando, Florida<\/li>\n<li>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento, California<\/li>\n<li>San Bernardino, California<\/li>\n<li>San Diego, California<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco, California<\/li>\n<li>San Jose\/Silicon Valley, California<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barbara, California<\/li>\n<li>Sonoma\/Napa Counties, California<\/li>\n<li>Spokane, Washington<\/li>\n<li>Tampa, Florida<\/li>\n<li>Toledo, Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Tulsa, Oklahoma<\/li>\n<li>Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the internet was abuzz with the news that Uber had lowered their fares in over 100 cities. Passengers were happy, drivers were upset, and Uber hoped everything would work out in their favor. However, Lyft wasn&#8217;t going to sit back and let Uber win this battle without a fight and in a typical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116],"tags":[393,137,13,317,460,32,10,12,131,230,15,461,320,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4078,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}