{"id":2599,"date":"2019-09-23T02:11:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T02:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2019-09-23T05:57:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T05:57:33","slug":"ohio-state-partners-with-lyft-to-replace-safe-ride-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/ohio-state-partners-with-lyft-to-replace-safe-ride-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State Partners with LYFT to replace safe ride service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Sam Raudins, <em>The Lantern<\/em>, July 31, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-lantern\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zZEn8zwF2V\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/2019\/07\/ohio-state-partners-with-lyft-to-replace-safe-ride-service\/\">Ohio State partners with Lyft to replace Safe Ride service<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Ohio State partners with Lyft to replace Safe Ride service&#8221; &#8212; The Lantern\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/2019\/07\/ohio-state-partners-with-lyft-to-replace-safe-ride-service\/embed\/#?secret=zZEn8zwF2V\" data-secret=\"zZEn8zwF2V\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lyft-amp-illo-1200x630-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lyft-amp-illo-1200x630-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lyft-amp-illo-1200x630-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lyft-amp-illo-1200x630-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lyft-amp-illo-1200x630-696x365.png 696w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lyft-amp-illo-1200x630-1068x561.png 1068w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lyft-amp-illo-1200x630-800x420.png 800w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lyft-amp-illo-1200x630.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cIt\u2019s also important to emphasize that this is a safety feature. This isn\u2019t a taxi service,\u201d Greer said. \u201cWe really ask students to go by the honor system and to save these rides for when they\u2019re in a really critical situation late at night, they need a ride back, and we\u2019re expecting the car to be there within minutes.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Lyft Ride Smart will serve the same area as the Safe Ride: North to Hudson Street, south to Fifth Avenue, east to Conrail railroad tracks, and west to North Star Road. The north boundary west of Olentangy River Road is Ackerman Road, according to Hedman.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cLyft is thrilled to partner with The Ohio State University to help students seamlessly move around campus,\u201d Carl said. \u201cOur mission is to improve people\u2019s lives with the world\u2019s best transportation, and we\u2019re looking forward to bringing an affordable, reliable transportation option to the beloved Columbus college campus.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article is relevant to my thesis since it shows one of the steps that has been taken and has been worked on for quite sometime by Ohio State to ensure that their students are kept safe at night. Also it gives good boundaries for where Ohio State feels they can extend their reach too, outside of the main campus.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sam Raudins, The Lantern, July 31, 2019 \u201cIt\u2019s also important to emphasize that this is a safety feature. This isn\u2019t a taxi service,\u201d Greer said. \u201cWe really ask students to go by the honor system and to save these rides for when they\u2019re in a really critical situation late at night, they need a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-focus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}