Opinion: If you can't save money, time and the planet with Uber and Lyft, then what is the point?

A passenger gets in an Uber ride in Brazil. An abundance of research has shown that Uber and Lyft create congestion in the already overcrowded downtown streets of big cities and add to pollution. — Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES: Sunday night, I flew into LAX from San Francisco and boarded a shuttle to the airport's newish pickup spot for ground transportation just east of Terminal 1. I found myself standing amid an unhappy crowd of restless travelers who had been waiting as long as 30 minutes to be picked up by their Lyft drivers.

Weird, I thought. Not how it's supposed to be.