Lyft offers more families with discounted rides to grocery stores -

For families that are living in places from where the distance to the marketplaces is like traveling a desert, Lyft has decided to make a difference.

Back in January, the ride-hailing service called Lyft built a specific program for the people living in Washington, DC, in order for them to get to these inaccessible stores easily. Lasts week, the program after its success in Washington was expanded to a more than 12 other cities.

According to data collected by Lyft, nearly 2.3 million Americans who are in low-income line live in rural areas are located at least 10 miles away from their nearest supermarket. For them to get to these stores is extremely difficult based on the fact that they have to rely on either public transits or have minimum access to a car.

Lyft Grocery Access Program:-

The “Lyft Grocery Access Program” since its start four months ago has been sued by hundreds of families. In order for a family to register for this program, family needs to have a child which is enrolled at a participating school as well as the family be willing to take 3 surveys in the span of 6 months.

Each of these families was given 50 2.50 dollars worth of shared rides each. This means that nearly two people can make a carpool trip ride. The program offers the ride to 3 grocery stores as well as the market in the community’s group.

The service has received immensely positive reviews from their users as they stated that they are glad for having the access to the healthy food as well as peace of mind that they can make a safe return to the supermarket and back home.

Two weeks earlier, Atlanta was also added in this program and now more cities are being with some being of Canada. The full list of cities added into this new program is as follows.