Do you have Uber/Lyft available where you live?

[angus]

I was standing on the corner of Duke and Chestnut today, looking at one of those hysterical markers which described the spot where a particular member of the continental congress of 1777 took a dump, or something like that, when a very HamitoSemitic-looking dude--perhaps Morrocan, or Egyptian--asked me where the "taxi stand" was.  My instinctive response was to point him toward Queen Street, a couple of blocks west, and I said that he'd have a better chance there.  I see lots of taxis there.  Then it occurred to me to be open with him and tell him that I rarely use taxis so he might be better off asking someone else.  (I drove downtown every day this week to the Mulberry Art Studio because I had enrolled my son in Bricks4Kids Lego robotics program.  It turned out to have been worth the money.  I wish I was ten again.  Today I remembered that there was a public library not far from the Mulberry Art Studio that had a book I wanted that my local library didn't have.  My library card works in any of the county's public libraries, so I figured I'd give it a go.  That's how I happened to be on Duke Street in the first place.  Generally, however, I avoid downtown except to drive through on my way to work.)

Anyway, I am aware that Uber inagurated services here in May of this year, but I'm not sure about Lyft.  In dead0man's thead I voted "don't give a sh**t" or whatever the non-yes/non-no option was, because I don't take cabs.  Well, except my own, or my wife's, and generally only when I'm at the helm, which I am regularly.  Otherwise, I'm on foot or I'm on a bicycle.  I'm just too cheap to take public transit other than buses or trains, to be honest. 

Oddly, I have been noticing an unusually large number of yellow taxis in my neighborhood lately.  I assume that it's because it is summer.  Lots of folks travelling during summer, necessitating rides to the train station or to the airports.  Usually I don't see many of them in this part of Suburbia.

Voted "only uber" in this thread, but maybe one of the other Lancastrians here can be more informative.  In any case, I only know of uber because of what I've read in the local newspaper.  I probably won't use Uber (or Lyft, if it exists) any more than I use regular taxis, which is never.  If I'm really too drunk to drive home, I'll just crash on your sofa, or I'll have the old lady drive us home.