Here in the South of Market section of San Francisco if you pause too long at a stop sign, someone will get into the backseat of your car assuming you’re a driver for hire. Our streets have become a petri dish for every kind of car service, so it doesn’t surprise me that many of my neighbors assume that Uber and Lyft are actually making urban roads more congested. This perception could be reality. It turns out “that ride-hailing companies are pulling riders off buses, subways, bicycles and their own feet and putting them in cars instead.” From AP: Studies are increasingly clear: Uber, Lyft congest cities.