Uber, Lyft Drivers At Odds With Sacramento Airport Over Garbage

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – If you're wondering why there's a wait time for your Lyft or Uber driver at the Sacramento airport, it's because your driver must park nearly two miles away in a designated zone along I-5 and some are calling down right dirty, and it's not what you're thinking.

"Somebody should really do something about this it's ridiculous," said Munsur Saeed, who drivers for Uber.

Literally it's a mess along the interstate next to farmland, heaps and mounds of garbage and some are blaming Lyft and Uber drivers.

Is it happening?

"Ya, ya look around," said an Uber driver.

We hit the streets to find out who's to blame.

"I've never seen anyone dump garbage out here, not once," said Crystal Winchester who drivers for Uber.

"People just drive and throw their stuff outside on the side of the road, it's disgusting," Snyder maintains it's not him, but he's seen it.

"I'm not putting any garbage out there, so it's not me," Chenay McCoy told CBS13.

Clearly there's a problem out there, which is why some drivers are taking it into their own hands and putting up garbage bags and in one area it's working.

"They need a garbage can out here that's for sure. They need a place for people to put their trash, but people shouldn't be cleaning their cars down here. That doesn't make sense," said an Uber driver who wished to keep his name out of the story.

Someone's has to clean it up, but who?

The Sacramento Airport said they're not required to maintain offsite property and are in negotiations with Lyft and Uber to find a permanent solution, but with the mess piling up, they're taking care of it.

Many are hoping those negotiations come sooner rather than later for everyone's sake.

"There are probably 1,000 drivers out here every day. Give us a little dumpster or maybe a blue room because everybody just pees on the tree back there. It's gross," Snyder said.

The San Francisco Airport has a designated spot for Uber and Lyft drivers already. Sacramento International Airport expects a new plan to present by October.