Surge pricing is back in Massachusetts. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. It's something rideshare driver Stephen Levine is counting on to make some money. Levine took nine months off the road during the pandemic because he was afraid of being too close to strangers. And with most people at home anyway, there wasn't much to be made. "The money was awful," said Levine, who says he contracted COVID-19 from a passenger at the very beginning of the pandemic. "When there's no business, it's just not worth it." Surge pricing coming to an end in Massachusetts during the state of emergency was a problem for drivers.