You can take an Uber to the Super Bowl — but not a Lyft (xpost from Sports)

[KamaAina]

http://www.businessinsider.com/you-can-take-an-uber-to-the-super-bowl-but-not-a-lyft-or-a-taxi-2016-1

If you wanted to take any car service other than Uber to the Super Bowl, think again.

The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company effectively bought exclusive rights to the Super Bowl, hosted 45 miles south of its headquarters in Santa Clara....

But, as part of its exclusive deal, Lyft and other car services won't be let into the stadium area.

Uber will be the only ride-hailing app to have its own designated pick-up and drop-off zones about a 15 minute walk from the doors. Passengers will have their own rider lounge to wait in for their rides, and the app will only let riders be picked up or dropped off from the one lot, so there won't be Ubers swarming the stadium.

edit: Silicon Valley Leadership Group's head honcho Carl Guardino is going to go ballistic. His wife is a lobbyist for Lyft.

edit: Even VTA light rail will have to discharge most of its passengers at the next station down the line from Levi's, because they're not allowed to run trains through the Double Secret National Security Zone around the stadium.

[chapdrum]

1. Pardon the unsophisticated naivete,

but I wish they would all go eff themselves.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. So they do all the same political bullshit traditional cab companies do only with the benefits going

to a small group of people who never drive a passenger themselves at all.