Uber Archives

PAYING TO PLAY

How Rideshare and Delivery Companies Raised $43 Million and Bought Influence In Mass What can $43 million buy? If you’re an alliance of rideshare giants and delivery app companies, it can buy millions of dollars in TV ads, high-powered consultants, and campaign workers who cross over with your biggest opponent.

DAN ATKINSON September 29, 2022

SOMERVILLE MAN SUES UBER FOR PARALYZING CRASH, ALLEGING THAT COMPANY IGNORED DRIVER’S HISTORY

(Photos courtesy of: Victoria Santoro Mair) The sound of the accident haunts William Good to this day A Somerville man filed a $63 million lawsuit Tuesday against Uber over a crash that left him permanently paralyzed, saying the driver of the car had had a history of reckless driving but

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN January 27, 2022

THE MOST DANGEROUS SQUARE MILE

The centuries-long relationship with Boston that made Chelsea a frontline community for environmental justice

SUREN MOODLIAR September 18, 2019

A CLIMATE FIGHT FOR THE AGES

After four years of struggle, Weymouth activists continue to challenge the fossil fuel industrial complex

ITAI VARDI September 18, 2019

A SPECIAL CLIMATE CRISIS ISSUE

Covering Climate Now now ranks as one of the most ambitious efforts ever to organize the world’s media around a single coverage topic.

BINJ ONLINE September 18, 2019

THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT TO COME

If brilliant Boston and the supposedly clever state surrounding it can’t get their climate remediation and preparedness acts together, how are less wealthy parts of the country supposed to manage the job?

JASON PRAMAS September 18, 2019

SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY

It was vexing to watch Bird fans that clearly hadn’t even bothered to read the article in question—let alone my broad and deep back catalog—attack me as some kind of car-loving anti-environmental reactionary in the service of flogging their hipster transportation fetish du jour.

JASON PRAMAS August 16, 2018

FLIPPING US THE BIRD

Bird’s model looks to be entirely profit-driven and completely mean-spirited. No matter how much CEO Travis VanderZanden tries to equate the unasked-for and unwanted service to “freedom.”

JASON PRAMAS July 25, 2018

REAL RIDESHARING

Evolving the way the world moves … beyond Uber (and Lyft) July 7, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The following column was written as commentary for the July 2017 episode of the Beyond Boston monthly video news digest — produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and several area public access television stations.

JASON PRAMAS July 7, 2017