thousand and sixteen which is the years that lift were getting really popular all around america congestion in san francisco actually went up more than sixty percent and they attributed more than half of that congestion that added congestion due to and lift they were able to take away over a lift in their studies and they saw that congestion only went up twenty two percent when you don t count in love with private cars so what that suggesting is that there is more traffic because of lift in those kinds of companies and more private cars in san francisco look you know the study is the san francisco the cool off but the problem isn t and that does it no certainly no this is not unique to san francisco congestion is a major problem with cities all around the united states and really all around the world as infrastructure tries to keep up with population booms a major study from last year by one of the experts leading experts on transit mobility in new york city show that in nine of americ
make much money which have been raised rising since it was named driver lift went public six weeks ago. but despite all this excitement and was st it s a decidedly bumpy a rifle on the main street in the same week drivers bent to strike a working conditions a new study is putting a dent in one of was central claims the davies reporter william know of new craft joins me now for more on that welcome so what does this study would have what does it say well of course one of the central claims that companies like it make is that they are reducing congestion and traffic in cities because you don t need a private car when you can use your lifter or other ride hayling companies so a team of experts from the university of kentucky wanted to see if this was true and they decided to focus on san francisco on san francisco s request which is one of america s most congested cities and the home base of goober and lift and what they saw was no it s not true actually between two thousand and ten and t