Originally Posted by
Polytonic
Mine expired yesterday. I used Lyft a grand total of once this entire past year. That was 3 days ago, when my Uber driver confirmed pickup and then promptly drove away from me. I'm guessing the guy was multi-app driving and forgot.
In my experience, Uber often has better prices, more drivers, and better availability (e.g. available internationally). I struggle to see who pays for this. You'd have to spend ~$135/mo. on Lyft to break-even on the monthly fee. For me, that's about 3x roundtrips to the airport (vs. $6 for light rail). Even with the 10x Points + 15% off, Lyft is often $1-2 more expensive than Uber on a per-ride basis.
I only use rideshare 2-4 times/month but lately I can hit $135 in 1 or 2 rides. Getting from PDX to home was about $35 pre-pandemic, but with travel picking up and the number of drivers not increasing, it's been $100 the last couple times. It used to be about the same from home to PDX, and now those are about $50. It increased in LA a few months before it did in PDX, where my rides went from $50 to $65 and $65 to $100+ (and probably more now), so it's not any cheaper than driving and parking in LA, even with the recent spike in parking prices, and with driving myself and parking I'm not going to get caught in some crazy surge pricing. There are hybrid options in both places, like Flyaway+(metro and/or rideshare) in LA and MAX+rideshare in PDX, but they add a lot of time to the trip, and still subject you to unpredictable ride pricing. I generally check both Lyft and Uber and find that they're within a few percent of each other, though Lyft includes the discount to get there.