{"id":450753,"date":"2026-09-02T06:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450753\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T06:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:10:16","slug":"sunnyvale-launches-city-run-ride-share-service-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450753\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunnyvale launches city-run ride-share service \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunnyvale is launching its own on-demand ride-share service, offering trips throughout the city for $3.50.<\/p>\n<p>The new service, called Sunnyvale Beam, operates similarly to Uber or Lyft but is run by the local government.<\/p>\n<p>The city contracted with Via Transportation to operate the service, which is partially funded by a state grant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really important for people to try the service. We think people are going to like it, and the first three rides are free, so people can try it risk-free,&#8221; a city representative said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone in Sunnyvale can download the Beam app to request a ride.<\/p>\n<p>The service also offers rides to Homestead High School and Kaiser Medical Center in Santa Clara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunnyvale is launching its own on-demand ride-share service, offering trips throughout the city for $3.50. The new service,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,203],"class_list":["post-450753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sunnyvale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}