Airports Cracked Uber and Lyft - Time for cities to take note [Wired]

Uber and Lyft sure brought some havoc to the airports. Great for consumers, but imagine the headache.  Check out some of the points this article raises:

• Then came the traffic. At San Francisco International, companies like Uber and Lyft now account for 75 percent of commercial ground transportation, says airport spokesperson Doug Yakel. That’s about 880,000 trips a month, and it makes for a real mess: Drivers prowling the curb as they look for passengers, screeching in and out of spaces when they find their targets. Riders dragging packed roller bags through a sea of cars, wandering from Prius to Prius.
• parking revenues per passenger decline by 3 to 7 percent in the year or two after Uber and Lyft showed up in the area.  
• SFO, for example, now makes some Uber and Lyft riders meet their drivers in a disused section of an airport parking lot. According to Yakel, the move diverted about 20 percent of ride-hail traffic from the arrivals gate, where all passengers used to wait for their cars. Las Vegas and Detroit have created similar pickup and drop-off zones in parking lots that aren’t as busy as they used to be.