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Re:Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years by michaelcampbell on Sunday April 07, 2019 @10:41AM (#19597032)
Except taxi ranks are a queue of fungible vehicles; uber/lyft's are "bespoke" so the exact same structure won't work quite as well.

But it wouldn't be hard to make a pickup/dropoff area. I suspect there already is one at most places, it's just a pissy, petty policy that doesn't allow ridesharing (etc) to use it.

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Re:Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years by closeparen on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:29PM (#19598366)
In SF planning meetings, I have seen buildings explicitly discouraged from accommodating pickup/dropoff on the theory that it would make traffic impacts worse (this is backwards) and undermine the “transit oriented” argument (harder to argue).
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Re:Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years by mcculley on Sunday April 07, 2019 @11:22AM (#19597327)
It’s more than policy. It is architecture. As I described above, I live in a new building. I step out into traffic to get into an Uber. This was an obvious thing to consider during this building’s design.
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Re:Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years by dredmorbius on Sunday April 07, 2019 @02:45PM (#19598981)
There's no reason why rideshare queues and car-rider assignments couldn't be fungible up to the point the passenger steps into the vehicle, special needs excepted.
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Re:Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years by manigandham on Sunday April 07, 2019 @06:32PM (#19600373)
Those are called taxis. Even then they only line up at major locations, not residential buildings.
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Re:Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years by dredmorbius on Sunday April 07, 2019 @06:56PM (#19600485)
No.

Rideshare still behaes ona requ basis. But the vehicle at the head of the queue serves the passenger first requesting a ride, special needs excepted. Out-of-order arrival of rides is addressed that way.

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Re:Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years by manigandham on Sunday April 07, 2019 @07:02PM (#19600512)
That means the rider wouldn't know what vehicle is coming and when, which goes against the whole experience.

Also it's unlikely for there to be that many rides queued up at a single residential location which is why they aren't queued up there in the first place.

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Re:Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years by dredmorbius on Sunday April 07, 2019 @09:11PM (#19601141)
it's unlikely for there to be that many rides queued up at a single residential location

The premise of this thread was that there were.

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Re:Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years by manigandham on Monday April 08, 2019 @02:27AM (#19602633)
I think it's about having a pickup/dropoff area, not necessarily a queuing system, especially because ridesharing does not use traditional waiting queues.
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Re:Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years by dredmorbius on Monday April 08, 2019 @03:42PM (#19608378)
Again, specifically not the case here. You are having a different discussion.

"if there's already a taxi rank, then uber should be using that space to pick-up/drop-off. If there isn't, then the current building is already unfriendly to taxis."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19596930

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