Lyft has filed a lawsuit against San Francisco to try to stop the city allowing its bike-sharing rivals to operate. The company said permits for competitors would violate a 10-year exclusivity agreement with city authorities it took over when it acquired Ford GoBike. City Attorney Dennis Herrera, however, said the deal only relates to docked bike-sharing services and did not give Lyft a bike-sharing monopoly in the city. A new report from the Public Policy Institute of California found that more than half of California’s counties are now spending less on public education per student than they were just 10 years ago.
Lyft has filed a lawsuit against San Francisco to try to stop the city allowing its bike-sharing rivals to operate. The company said permits for competitors would violate a 10-year exclusivity agreement with city authorities it took over when it acquired Ford GoBike. City Attorney Dennis Herrera, however, said the deal only relates to docked bike-sharing services and did not give Lyft a bike-sharing monopoly in the city. San Francisco is expanding its programme for dockless cycles after residents complained that the increasing number of docks threatened parking space.