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It’s more like Greyhound…
In reality, it is first mile and last mile.
If you’re in a wheelchair or you oare therwise are ADA eligible, they will give you a ride to/from a public transit stop.
The onus is on the transportation system to be ADA accessible beyond the dropoff.
There are also employment partners who will pay for this leg.
WOAH! This is an AMAZING idea! WHY hasn’t Anyone THOUGHT of this Before? It’s INCREDIBLE!
-People who Vote AGAINST Public Transportation and will COMPLAIN about how Expensive this is!
What’s that other meme? The one about how every few years tech bros reinvent public transportation.
wait wait wait hear me out, what if we had something bigger than a car and it still had a single driver but multiple passengers???
Like a library but for travelling?
public library transport! we might be onto sth here
Public transportation but expensive.
Lemme guess, next they’ll try connecting multiple carriages to carry more people per vehicle then work with local governments to build dedicated right of way…etc etc…
And put some guidelines in the road to assist with self driving. Maybe make them out of metal for improved durability. Then swap out the rubber-wheeled tires for some more efficient and less poluting conical metal wheels since we don’t need to worry about them running on asphalt anymore.
Oooh. And as long as we have multiple carriages connected, we can add a walkway between them. Then instead of all of them being for passengers, they can subsidize the cost by having a car dedicated to selling snacks, or other items. You can literally buy your morning coffee from the road!
And you can plant a wildflower meadow around the track.
Do you want everyone to just sit there, drink their coffee, read daily news or a book and gasp interact with others like some kind of savages? Back in my day we stared at same-looking highways for hours, it builds character.
Revolutionary! Too radical, it will never work!
No it’s privatized, so somebody at the top is getting rich. See that’s the important part for these assholes. They just don’t want the government spending that money when they could be spending it on more airplanes to drop into the fucking ocean.
I like the spice…cheff kiss
Public transit can be privatized and run for profits. Good example is Japan metro and train networks. Bad ones are bus routes in latinamerica.
The trolley system in early 20th century US cities died due to issues related to privatization. It’s been done; doesn’t work.
Well, it’s more like the model was unsustainable. The trolley system was originally built by neighborhood builders as a neighborhood amenity to attract buyers. When the neighborhood was all sold up, the builder would hand the system over to the city, who would then fund the maintenance of the system via ? which was fine and dandy for a while because rail infra doesn’t need half the maintenance asphalt does, but once you had enough of these lines aging out and piling up maintenance issues all at once and the city having done almost no planning to fund said maintenance, the cities would reliably just say “fuck it, let people drive” rather than try pulling teeth via passing a tax or something. From here in 2025, I’m ready to send a terminator back in time at them over it, but I can see how they arrived there in the context of their time.
who would then fund the maintenance of the system via ?
Via property tax. The same way local roads are maintained
Right. Well, IIRC property tax is collected by the county and then sliced up and divvied out to different municipalities, which, also IIRC, then goes into the municipal general fund. If the city is stupid and doesn’t plan maintenance, and instead treats the rail as a free good, then when it comes time to keep up on it, it’s easier to just shrug and replace it with a business service.
What’s more is that you also had GM going around and basically taking the EEE approach to municipal transit by offering ridiculously cheap bus services to replace trams, only to end them a short while later. So, it’s not all on the cities, though one wishes they’d had the foresight to understand that private companies never do stuff out of the goodness of their hearts.
The fragmentation of railway companies is horrible to deal with. Tokyo is a mix between JR and Keisei and you need to buy a separate ticket for each.
At least they run really well.
There are actually more operators than just JR and Keisei, but transferring between any of them is usually very quick and painless if you have any of the major transportation network cards in Japan, or associated NFC app. Only tourists actually buy tickets at the machines.
However, it does tend to cost more than sticking to one operator.
Germany’s partial privatization of public transit, led to major issues like underinvestment, frequent delays, and high costs for passengers, underfunding, and profit-driven management.
profit-driven management.
This alone explains pretty much every other problem
The problem is that if the profitable routes are private, who will run the unprofitable ones? This is effectively siphoning money away from the profitable public transit routes placing more of a burden on transit agencies.
That being said, even if it’s 50% cheaper than a normal uber I doubt anyone will use it.
If there’s already public transport on the route, why would anyone chose a presumably more expensive Uber-bus?
If the timing is better and it’s cheap enough I’ve taken an uber to avoid 30+ minute bus waits before.
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Here’s one more for "trains is to transportation what crabs are to evolution ’
And what Excel is to every productivity app, and what email is every messenging service.
I dunno, chatrooms serve a very different purpose than emails…
I’m pretty sure it’s public transportation with fewer steps!
Now the public doesn’t have to worry about pesky “democracy” to make decisions about who’s commanding the transportation. The shareholders interests will do that for you!
Huzzah!
Then comes the deregulation! Even fewer steps. We’re reaching Elon levels of efficiency.
private public transportation
Capitalists don’t innovate. They gut public services and then claim they invented the idea…
if I had a nickle every time a techbro invented a bus or a train, I’d probably be able to afford a fucking bigmac
And they ‘invent’ it in a way that would make a 19th century engineer want to bust their heads against a wall. Because their train replacements are ironically less efficient than a late 19th century railway locomotive.
“My latest invention is a never before seen, genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car monorail!”
Chef Kiss.
And then when people complain because its an inherently worse service, they resort to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and “just start your own company even though you have no capital” type bullshit.
Cheff kiss
Of course they re-invented the bus. It’s like carcinisation but the end product is always trains or busses., but if this means less cars on the roads I think I’m for it. As long as cities don’t get lazy and use this an excuse to cut their bus programs.
Oh but they will get lazy. They will be lobbied in fact to get lazy.
Yes,
like publictransportAdam Something has a done a whole bunch of videos ridiculing tech bro reinventions of bus and train, great stuff.
It’s like carcinisation for public transit.
