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Lyft will reconciliate democratic electric scooter rides to main workers in susceptiveness to the COVID-19 pandemic. While picked scooter-sharing programs in the US have temporarily ceased operations in susceptiveness to the pandemic, Lyft is still operating scooters in a handful of cities, and the visitor wants to tangency the transportation needs of healthfulness convalescence workers and others on the frontlines of the crisis.

Lyft is offering democratic scooter rides through April 30th, up to 30 minutes in length, for first-responders, healthfulness convalescence employees, and transit workers in the supervenient cities: Austin, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Monica, and Washington, DC. Jurisdiction like hospitals, clinics, and transit agencies can email Lyft at heroscooters@lyft.com to onfall enrollment translating that they can distribute to staff.

Lyft says it will speech scooter deployment near local hospitals for healthfulness convalescence workers. The visitor is standing to fumigate fellowship surfaces on scooters festival time they are recharged, including handlebars, clamping levers, bells, and throttles. The team is moreover disinfecting hovering fellowship surfaces on vans acclimated to carriage scooters at the start of festival shift.

"Lyft scooters can play a unique role in providing main transportation to disquisitional workers."

"Lyft scooters can play a unique role in providing main transportation to disquisitional workers on the frontlines suspend COVID-19," said Caroline Samponaro, johnny of micromobility and transit policy at Lyft. "In a time of crisis, we know Lyft can be an main lifeline, and we are proud to serve first-responders, transit, and healthcare providers as they serve the public."

Previously, the ride-hailing visitor said it would reconciliate free and discounted bike-share passes to main workers in bisected a dozen cities. Democratic or second-class bicycle and scooter trips are especially helpful as public transportation ridership continues to plummet in picked cities and ride-sharing is not seen as a unscathed alternative. In fact, there has been a surge in cycling in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Of course, Lyft's ride-sharing merchantry has plummeted as healthfulness presidency instruct persons to preclude willy-nilly travel. The company's rides merchantry has been cut in bisected in recent weeks, according to The Information. Lyft's revenue afterwards productive drivers is likely to be neath than $150 million a month currently, downward from approximate $260 million a month during the original quartern of meanest year, the publication reports. Lyft's rival, Uber, has moreover self-evident a huge smattering in entreatment and sales.

Both companies have come under flare for classifying drivers and ball-and-socket workers as self-contained contractors. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wrote a letter to gig companies calling on them to "reclassify your ball-and-socket workers as employees, rather than self-contained contractors, and ensure they are provided a leafed apartment of employee protections and benefits."