commuting

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, March 16. In a county where so much of life revolves around our cars, commuting by bicycle isn’t for the faint of heart.Spend a few moments scrolling through Tom Morash’s social media feeds and you’ll see why. The 41-year-old, known on social media as Entitled Cyclist, has been biking for about a decade and shares on Twitter a near-daily stream of photos and videos from his commutes. He recently branched out to Instagram and YouTube, plus a…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain For most American workers who commute, the trip to and from the office takes nearly one full hour a day—26 minutes each way on average, with 7.7% of workers spending two hours or more on the road. Many people think of commuting as a chore and a waste of time. However, during the remote work surge resulting…

Most airports come equipped with very clear signage at every possible turn: baggage claim one way, international gates the other way, restrooms straight ahead. However, if those indicators have ever failed you, Uber is here to help.The rideshare company seems to be tentatively expanding into a mapping and directions app. Uber will “soon” begin offering step-by-step, visual and written instructions for getting from landing gates to one of the company’s pickup areas at more than 30 airports in the U.S. and abroad, as…

Last Updated: February 28, 2023, 15:19 ISTAs per the schedule of the train, on March 6 the train will leave at 2:50 pm to reach Jaynagar station. Passengers are advised to take note of these special trains and make their travel plans accordingly. To control the rush during the Holi festival of Holi, Indian Railways has resumed the services of some special trains. These special trains will commute to Bihar from stations like Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro Chittaranjan, and Madhupur in Jharkhand. These trains will bring relief…

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaking at the 2021 Concordia Annual Summit. Khosrowshahi previously said Uber had no plans for broad layoffs at Davos 2023.Image: Riccardo Savi (Getty Images)Uber is reportedly pursuing an unorthodox approach to performance reviews at the ride-share company. While Uber says it has no plans for broad layoffs, so to speak, it does have plans for upcoming performance reviews to include potential cuts to the company’s workforce.As detailed by Insider, the cuts are not layoffs, and Uber is echoing…

Cash rules everything around mePhoto: Tapati Rinchumrus (Shutterstock)You hear about class-action lawsuits all the time, like this one filed against Apple (based on a Gizmodo story!), or this other one against Apple (or this one or this one). Part of the reason is they’re so lucrative for lawyers; a “class” is a group of people who have the same grievance against a company, which means there’s a lot of money involved if the company loses or settles. But when there’s money on the table, it’s not guaranteed you’ll receive a…

For most American workers who commute, the trip to and from the office takes nearly one full hour a day – 26 minutes each way on average, with 7.7 percent of workers spending two hours or more on the road.Many people think of commuting as a chore and a waste of time. However, during the remote work surge resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, several journalists curiously noted that people were – could it be? – missing their commutes.One woman told The Washington Post that even though she was working from home, she…

Image: Getty ImagesPeople who remote work are spending a big chunk of the time that used to go to commuting on doing more work, according to a new study.  Researchers behind the the National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Time Savings When Working from Home, estimate that people who WFH use 40% of their commute-time savings on working on primary and secondary jobs. A further 34% goes to leisure, and 11% goes to caregiving. "These results suggest that much of the time savings flow back to employers, and…

Image: Tomohiro Ohsumi (Getty Images)Uber Eats rolled out a new “View as Delivery Person” feature this week to combat uncomfortable experiences or concerns customers may have with their delivery driver. The new feature will allow customers to see what personal data and information their driver/biker/scooter-ershave access to during each stage of the delivery process.The feature will show a live feed of what the customers’ delivery person has access to at each stage from picking up the food to commuting to the customers’…

As the old adage goes: Time is money. And now there’s one more reason to watch the clock. Lyft has quietly added wait time fees to its cost scheme. If you request a car and aren’t present at the pick up point within two minutes (or 5 minutes for luxury rides) of the scheduled arrival time, the rideshare app will now charge you for every minute of tardiness. Lyft’s new policy began in December 2022, a company spokesperson told Gizmodo in a phone call, but was introduced without fanfare. The change was first reported on by…