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How is this any different from someone driving a 2017 Lexus versus a 1990 Toyota? Both may be a reflection of the income one receives. Both take up the same pub
by fluxquanta 11y ago
How is this any different from someone driving a 2017 Lexus versus a 1990 Toyota? Both may be a reflection of the income one receives. Both take up the same public infrastructure of the road and parking spaces.
- rosser 11y agoI'm sorry, but no. Private busses using public bus stops — and blocking public bus traffic — is not an income issue.
- tptacek 11y agoAre the private busses in any way holding up public bus service? Is there a serious reported story somewhere establishing this?
- pvg 11y agoSFMTA's most recent evaluation: https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/projects/2015/Evaluation%20Report%20-%20Oct%205%202015.pdf https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/projects/2015/Eval...
- rosser 11y agoTL;DR: Of an average of ~3000 "stop events" per day, 2.7%, or 80-ish, resulted in a shuttle blocking MUNI. Shuttles were also seen to block travel and/or bike lanes in some 35% of their stops.
- jonknee 11y agoI don't get your point, but if you park your car in a public bus stop you're an asshole regardless of its value.
- fluxquanta 11y agoYou seemed to imply in your original comment that taking the Google bus versus not taking the Google bus boils down to a class issue of "haves" and "have nots", so I was trying to illustrate that no matter what that class distinction would still exist.