Nearly 10,000 Uber drivers are cruising the streets of Boston and surrounding communities, dwarfing the number of licensed cabs and underscoring the importance of Uber in the region's transportation system, as well as the need for ride-sharing regulations, experts and officials said.
"Ten thousand people is more than many of us had ever thought, or had imagined," said City Councilor Tito Jackson. "Uber is actually even more of a substantial provider of rides than any of us knew, and this will be very helpful in terms of the types of policy that we form on this."
Uber released the data for the first time yesterday in a 27-page report outlining the number of drivers, earnings and demographics in 20 markets nationwide.
The 10,000 drivers that span the company's Boston market, which includes communities such as Framingham, Brockton and Andover, made at least one trip last month, Uber said. Boston Uber drivers make about $20 per hour, which does not include expenses such as gas and insurance, according to the report.
Uber said the number of drivers in Boston has doubled in less than a year.
In comparison, there are 1,825 licensed taxis in Boston, with roughly 3,000 licensed taxi drivers. In Cambridge, there are only 257 licensed taxis.
Taxi companies have been at odds with ride-sharing companies such as Uber, saying they have a competitive advantage since they don't have to follow the same rules.
"They have saturated the market, they've been able to underprice and pretty much run a business without any oversight or regulation," said Donna Blythe-Shaw, a spokeswoman for the Boston Taxi Drivers Association. "It throws in the face of city regulators and the state that there's an industry that has been running wild with no oversight and putting people out of work."
Boston's 10,000 drivers make the Hub the sixth largest Uber city in the country. The largest, Los Angeles, has more than 20,000 drivers, Uber said.
"It does have some impact on a potential for the need for regulation, but I don't think that the size of the number given, the fact that it's over a metropolitan area, I don't think that it means Uber should be shut down," said Janice Griffith, a law professor at Suffolk University. "What it does say is that a number of people have decided that they would prefer, or at least are willing to engage in, ride-sharing."
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