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It's a bit of a walk; the real amazement to me was that the rental car terminal was built across the street from the Tukwila Int'l Blvd station - I assume some

It's a bit of a walk; the real amazement to me was that the rental car terminal was built across the street from the Tukwila Int'l Blvd station - I assume some union or lobbyist there for the bus driver's union forced that one. Karma is fun, though. It's fun walking past the cab and town car aisles in the garage now (entirely empty, zero customers) and instead heading to the millennial cab stand to wait for an Uber/Lyft.

marcoperaza 9y ago
The whole setup really bothers me. They are clearly trying to make it unnecessarily annoying to take an Uber. You should be able to get picked up at the same place that friends/family would pick you up, right at the exit to the terminal. Instead, you have to walk to a random spot in the middle of the parking garage, where 50 other people are also trying to get picked up at the same time, and there's a long line of Ubers crawling through one lane trying to find their passenger.
- vkou 9y ago
  Instead of asking why an Uber can't pick someone up at the friends/family pickup lane, why not ask this question: Why shouldn't a taxi be allowed to pick people up at the same place that friends/family would? An Uber is, for all intents and purposes, a cab - not a friend. I assure you, the SeaTac taxi lane existed long before Uber. This isn't some petty anti-Uber ruling.
  - marcoperaza 9y ago
    The SeaTac taxi lane is a different kind of thing altogether, since you just walk up and take the next taxi. It is much more convenient, and is much more logically justified, than the Uber zone, since Uber matches you to a specific driver. Aside from the fact that the cab lane creates convenience, while the Uber area destroys it, there’s other reasons that apply to cabs and not Ubers. Cabs would just be slowly crawling through the arrivals area, hoping to get a client, and causing traffic. Ubers, in contrast, are there to find a specific passenger, just like family/friends, and have no incentive to slowly crawl through arrivals.
    - vkou 9y ago
      > and is much more logically justified, than the Uber zone, since Uber matches you to a specific driver. That sounds like Uber's problem. If they just got medallions, they too could queue up for curb-side pickup. > Ubers, in contrast, are there to find a specific passenger, just like family/friends, and have no incentive to slowly crawl through arrivals. Yes, they would absolutely be causing traffic. At most times of day, the arrivals lane is already at close to capacity. Throwing in a bunch of commercial traffic would be awful for the rest of us.
      - goialoq 9y ago
        family/friends are also causing traffic. Why do they deserve priority access?
    - toast0 9y ago
      Ubers without an assigned client would probably crawl through waiting to get assigned. Inevitably, they would be assigned just as they committed to leaving the area, and have to pull around.
  - smileysteve 9y ago
    > An Uber is, for all intents and purposes, a cab - not a friend. A private driver?
    - vkou 9y ago
      A cabbie is also a private driver for my 15 minute ride.

marcoperaza 9y ago

The whole setup really bothers me. They are clearly trying to make it unnecessarily annoying to take an Uber. You should be able to get picked up at the same place that friends/family would pick you up, right at the exit to the terminal. Instead, you have to walk to a random spot in the middle of the parking garage, where 50 other people are also trying to get picked up at the same time, and there's a long line of Ubers crawling through one lane trying to find their passenger.

vkou 9y ago
Instead of asking why an Uber can't pick someone up at the friends/family pickup lane, why not ask this question: Why shouldn't a taxi be allowed to pick people up at the same place that friends/family would? An Uber is, for all intents and purposes, a cab - not a friend. I assure you, the SeaTac taxi lane existed long before Uber. This isn't some petty anti-Uber ruling.
- marcoperaza 9y ago
  The SeaTac taxi lane is a different kind of thing altogether, since you just walk up and take the next taxi. It is much more convenient, and is much more logically justified, than the Uber zone, since Uber matches you to a specific driver. Aside from the fact that the cab lane creates convenience, while the Uber area destroys it, there’s other reasons that apply to cabs and not Ubers. Cabs would just be slowly crawling through the arrivals area, hoping to get a client, and causing traffic. Ubers, in contrast, are there to find a specific passenger, just like family/friends, and have no incentive to slowly crawl through arrivals.
  - vkou 9y ago
    > and is much more logically justified, than the Uber zone, since Uber matches you to a specific driver. That sounds like Uber's problem. If they just got medallions, they too could queue up for curb-side pickup. > Ubers, in contrast, are there to find a specific passenger, just like family/friends, and have no incentive to slowly crawl through arrivals. Yes, they would absolutely be causing traffic. At most times of day, the arrivals lane is already at close to capacity. Throwing in a bunch of commercial traffic would be awful for the rest of us.
    - goialoq 9y ago
      family/friends are also causing traffic. Why do they deserve priority access?
  - toast0 9y ago
    Ubers without an assigned client would probably crawl through waiting to get assigned. Inevitably, they would be assigned just as they committed to leaving the area, and have to pull around.
- smileysteve 9y ago
  > An Uber is, for all intents and purposes, a cab - not a friend. A private driver?
  - vkou 9y ago
    A cabbie is also a private driver for my 15 minute ride.