at least sometimes you can get "Around Town".
Former Councilmember Kasperzak deserves credit for helping drive the formation of MTMA when he was serving on our Council.

Uber and Lyft double the number of vehicle trips created by the rider? If the commuter drives themselves to work, they make one trip to work and one trip back = 2 trips. If they rely on Uber or Lyft, the ride-hailing vehicle makes one trip to the worksite, leaves to go somewhere else, another vehicle makes a trip back in the afternoon, and drives the commuter back home = 4 trips. This doesn't seem like a good idea to reduce traffic or congestion.

This sounds similar to what Scoop was doing 3-4 years ago when it was getting started as a convenient carpool-scheduling app. What makes the system work in the long run is for there to be enough drivers in the system that riders can be confident that they'll be able to get to work in the morning and (especially) to get home in the evening, and for there to be enough riders in the system that drivers can be confident that they'll get matched with riders that don't require too much of a detour.

@Commuter: Yes, if you look at the home (or workplace) of a rider, then someone carpooling instead of driving exchanges 1 departure and 1 arrival for 2 departures and 2 arrivals. But if you look at the overall situation, the carpool driver and rider are trading 4 long commute drives for 2 long commute drives and 4 short detours to pick up or drop off the rider.

And based on my experience using Scoop for 2.5 years, not all riders own cars (or they're in 2-worker households with only a single car). So if you look at the overall situation, car ownership can be reduced, with all that that means.