What if public transit was like Uber? A small city ended its bus service to find out::Small-scale, tech-based solutions to transportation problems have emerged as a great equalizer in the battle for infrastructure dollars between big cities and rural communities.
Americans will do anything but build consistent public transport.
What makes this a bad idea? Sounds much better than busses to me. It’s on demand, not on a fixed route, gors anywhere in the town, and is still the price of a bus ride.
So apart from being extremely wasteful, it is also contributing to traffic jams, scarcity of parking spaces, greenhouse gases, and whatnot.
Seriously, you Americans are in love with your huge cars/trucks and guns. You call this freedom, but in my eyes it is quite the opposite.
Because you don’t need a car to get that last mile. A much better and more flexible option woykd be robust trains/trams/subway system in dense cities that take you most of the way with electric options such as e-bikes or scooters to get you thay last bit if you need it. This does nothing but keeps our society dependant on car manufacturers and litters the road with more cars.
with electric options such as e-bikes or scooters to get you thay last bit if you need it.
Hi! I’d like to introduce you to winter. It destroys this as a workable solution, because for multiple months of the year it’s impossible for these to run. Meaning they’d need a last mile winter solution, such as… a car.
There’s also the issue of these types of solutions being notoriously hard to maintain. I believe the majority of city “e-thing” companies have gone under because it’s an unworkable system.
Take a normal bike. Finnland is able to support this.
Hi! I’d like to introduce you to winter. It destroys this as a workable solution, because for multiple months of the year it’s impossible for these to run. Meaning they’d need a last mile winter solution, such as… a car.
E-bikes, scooters, bicycles and public transit works in winter, just so long as you maintain the infrastructure they need.
Additionally, any claims that this would not be workable from a cost perspective is false, as winter maintenance is 100% required for car infrastructure, and winter maintenance for car infrastructure keeps on happening year after year.
There’s also the issue of these types of solutions being notoriously hard to maintain. I believe the majority of city “e-thing” companies have gone under because it’s an unworkable system.
Completely unsubstantiated.
Hi! I’d like to introduce you to winter. It destroys this as a workable solution
There are places that have on demand busses rather than fixed routes.
Short gain compared to long term investment right here.
This is akin to discovering that you can hire freelance developers from developing nations for 1/10 of the cost, but then after 3 years… your whole system is a spaghetti mess and the rebuild cost many times that.
Because they’re now having to switch back over to buses anyways.
Pro-move: hire even more contractors to refactor.
This isn’t a solution. This is a small city making a choice that’s hostile to the environment and, if anything, intentionally laying the groundwork to privatize the local public transit options to invite surge pricing and other unethical price gouging that have no place in public services.
LA Metro is doing a similar service as an additional option with their transit. It’s designed as an option to fill in the gaps. More need to look to LA Metro. They’re doing a lot right.
That headline is presenting Uber as something worth aiming for. Quite the take.
i thought it waa somethings revolutionary, like, for ex, those who already have cars would pickup those without one, and get some gratification. Like we already have thousands of most-empty cars, let’s fill them up!
But no, they just have city-paid taxi lol huhu such revolution, much thought process, very innovative
The public transit system near me offers an Uber-like service. From what I read, it’s cheaper than Uber, but wait time are really long (a couple hours), and you can’t use it to move between cities, even though the service is available in a metro area which spans many cities.
It’s a option, but doesn’t seem like a great option.
Columbus Ohio does both that and buses. Unfortunately the area covered is much smaller than it ought to be
Wait what ?
