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Lyft Wants Streets With Fewer Lanes
- The Drive, Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8 AM
If more people use ride-sharing services instead of driving their own cars, traffic will be reduced, according to Lyft. Less traffic means less need for wide city streets with multiple lanes, and the company has an idea of what to do with that extra space. To that end, Lyft teamed with an architecture firm and transportation consultancy to remodel Los Angeles's Wiltshire Boulevard for a hypothetical future full of autonomous ride sharing.
