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Johns Hopkins University and UMBC should provide free MTA bus passes to their employees to encourage the use of public transportation.

A bail review hearing Richard S. Barnes is underway, although police have so far filed no charges against the Lyft driver.

Maven, General Motors' brand of car sharing, discontinues service in Baltimore and other cities.

Developers and officials turned over some dirt Monday to mark the beginning of construction on the new city community of Port Covington.

As users of Lyft, as well as its larger competitor Uber, which is expected to soon follow it onto the public markets, we can attest that the service is awesome. But that doesn’t mean that the business is awesome. Here's how to decide if you should invest in the companies.

Is Baltimore hip enough for electric scooter sharing? That's for city residents to decide, not some California start-up.

Since their arrival just weeks ago, the more than 60 dockless, battery-powered scooters have become fixtures in the city.

Transportation service Lyft adds feature to better communicate with deaf and hard-of-hearing passengers and drivers.

A year after the overhaul of Baltimore’s bus system, real-time tracking of the Maryland Transit Administration buses has arrived.

Lyft is launching a $200 subscription service called “Lyft Pass” for up to 30 discounted rides, and the ride-share company is inviting hundreds of its top-rated Baltimore-area drivers to apply for credentials to give rides to and from Fort Meade.

Lyft will pay $270,000 to sponsor five Baltimore Bike Share stations for three years, in a first-of-its-kind partnership for the San Francisco-based rideshare company that will also add designated Lyft pick-up zones at the stations.

The number of Lyft rides in Baltimore doubled in the last year, the company said, but declined to disclose the number of rides.

Two conversations about Baltimore and the lifestyles of millennials.

General Motors Co. started its car-sharing service, Maven, just over a year ago, placing Chevrolets and Cadillacs in the parking garages of New York apartment

Lyft will provide pick-up and drop-off zones, charging stations, refreshments and discounted rides for new riders at Artscape this weekend, the ride-share company announced.

As summer kicks into high gear in July, visitors pouring into Delaware beaches are embracing Uber and Lyft as options.

Lyft will bring its Lyft Lux and Lyft Lux SUV

Uber and Lyft have entered into a two-year deal with the state to become official transportation providers at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, officials said.

Fingerprinting Uber drivers would accomplish nothing.

Carroll organizations offer opportunities for safe rides home

The ride-sharing service's Lyftie awards recognize most-visited destinations among Lyft riders.

Fingerprints won't guarantee safety on Lyft — but it will drive me out of state

Ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft will not have to adopt fingerprint-based background checks for their drivers in order to continue operating in Maryland, but will have to agree to additional reporting and safety provisions, state regulators of the ridesharing industry said Thursday.

The Maryland Public Service Commission is charged with keeping passengers safe — that's why Uber and Lyft should not get a special waiver exempting their drivers from fingerprint background checks. Across the country, a steady stream of news reports concern Uber drivers sexually and physically assaulting passengers.

Lyft, the San Francisco-based rideshare company, contributed $12.3 million to Baltimore's local economy in 2016, according to a study released Monday by the firm.

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is traditionally the biggest drinking night of the year, resulting in high demand on rideshare apps such as Uber and Lyft. Here are tips to save time and money.

Popular ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft will plead their case Thursday before the Maryland Public Service Commission that they should not be required to fingerprint drivers.

Ridesharing services Uber and Lyft are pushing back against fingerprint-based background checks for drivers.

David Horsey on the Uber economy.

Uber will invest $25,000 over the next two years in student-run startups at the University of Maryland, College Park, one of only three college partnerships for the San Francisco-based ride-share company, the university announced Sunday.

The fate of popular ride-sharing companies like Uber could be decided in coming weeks in Maryland, though the path forward remains murky.

New technologies are expanding transportation options across the United States, and Baltimore ranks among the top 25 cities taking advantage of the trend, according to a study released Wednesday by Maryland PIRG.

Uber Technologies still has a lot to say about the Maryland Public Service Commission's plan to regulate it and other ride share companies as taxi operators — and the regulating agency will hear them out.

Decision to define ride-share firm Uber as a common carrier reveals inadequacy of existing regulations

A judge with the Maryland Public Service Commission proposed a ruling that would categorize Uber as "common carrier" taxi service, subject it to the same regulations as other taxi companies.

The popular ride share company Uber began urging Baltimore users this month to help "save" it, declaring that "Uber's future in Maryland is in jeopardy." Uber's PR campaign was spurred by regulators wading into the same controversy that already hit cities across the county as Uber and other technology-fueled ride sharing companies disrupt the local taxi cab market.

Ride-sharing apps like Lyft offer nothing more than unlicensed hacks

Imagine tapping your need for a ride to the grocery store into your smart phone, and it connects you with someone else in your neighborhood who is headed in the same direction and willing to pick you up on the way. Lyft is launching in Baltimore at 4 p.m. on Oct. 17.