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Right up until they have their first pedestrian incident.
by mkaziz 11y ago
Right up until they have their first pedestrian incident.
- tosseraccount 11y agoHow so? Shouldn't liability costs be be factored into the financial accounting part of any such operation?
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoThat doesn't sound very disruptive to me.
- cpursley 11y agoPlenty of private industries have incidents. How would this be different? There's already well-established legal and insurance systems in place to handle them. Also, privately run infrastructure has more of incentive to have a safe track (literally) record. Unlike government monopoly, they could loose a lot of money, lose their contract, or both.
- angdis 11y agoPlenty of modern cities with highly functional urban cores do just fine with public mass transit. DC should be able to do the same. It is a matter of fixing the right things rather than giving up and handing it over to private industry. Sadly too many interests in the USA are trigger-happy about throttling any/all public transit.
- tosseraccount 11y agoDoesn’t competition for gasoline, cable tv and phone service keep prices down? Why can't this work for transportation? Imagine what an Elon Musk could do with Amtrak or the New York subway.