Lyft Accused of Overcharging New Yorkers On Tolls

I’ve been pretty critical of Uber on this blog, but it looks like Lyft has learned a thing or two from its rival about how to just flaunt the law. A lawsuit in New York contends that Lyft has overcharged it customers by as much as $60 million by using the “cash” rate as opposed to the lower “EZ Pass” rate as mandated by the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission when going through tolls. In New York, that differential is, on average, about $2.46 per toll. At least, Lyft was helping its drivers more than lining its own pocket with this policy – 80% of that money went to the drivers while the company pocketed the remainder. The suit does not indicate whether these toll overcharges were an intentional policy, but I think we all have a pretty good guess whether it was or not.