Ride-hailing transportation service and Uber rival, Lyft, has announced that it’s now offering over 1 million rides per day according to a blog post.
The blog post which highlighted the performance of Lyft showed that it is now available to nearly 80 percent of the US population.
Quoting the post: “This year has been especially exciting for Lyft. In January, we set a goal of launching in 100 new communities across the country by the end of 2017. When we accomplished that in three months, we kept going — successfully launching in 160 cities by the end of June. Today, Lyft operates in over 360 communities, serving nearly 80 percent of the U.S. population.”
Lyft which was founded in 2012 and has grown in leaps and bounds as it aims to compete with Uber, the market leader in the ride-hailing business. This is perhaps the appropriate time to announce this report as Uber tries to combat the bad PR it has garnered in the past few months.
