I get that they want to reduce congestion but it seems like they would cause less congestion than either cabs or personal cars. And many airports don’t have good public transportation options particularly if you have luggage.
Who is helped by this?
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Ridesharing is new. Most airports are old and were already set up for taxies, shuttles and individual drop off/pick up.
Airports were not going to move their shuttles, individual drop-off points or taxi drop off/pick up points to make way for ride-sharing. The taxi companies, bus companies (or municipalities) would be upset. So the ride sharing pickup area was added later.
I think the taxi lobbyists play a part in this.
They are very resistant to ride share and make things as inconvenient as possible sometimes.
Airports are businesses that need money. Making it too easy to be dropped off for free will lower their revenue. If ridesharing is a both, more people will drive and park themselves, or use a taxi which some airports also get a fee from.
Taxi companies have lobbied airports or governments controlling airports to put the ridesharing app far away. The goal is to increase your chances to take a taxi.
Taxi lobbyists have been pretty efficient at convincing governments to help them by creating quotas that limit competition and giving them advantages like taxi and bus only lanes. They also convince governments and other institutions to be against ridesharing apps services since they are a direct competition to taxis.
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