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> “A portion of our trips can be a substitute for public transportation,”

And Koch is trying and succeeding to remove funding from public transit, that makes it easier for uber to replace public transit. So they are effectively working together.

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But Uber/Lyft are not lobbying against public transit. In fact, in Denver, you can buy RTD tickets through the Uber app. There are plenty of reasons from a labor perspective to dislike rideshare companies but this ain't it.

> But Uber/Lyft are not lobbying against public transit.

Right but nobody claimed that.

It's the implication you and the headline are making. I have yet to see any evidence that Uber and Lyft are against public transport. They are competing with it, which is their right. That's massively different from attempting regulatory capture like the Kochs have done.

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