The biggest pain in my daily commute is bus to train station. The time's don't mesh up and theres usually a 1 -> 1.5 hour lead time. I travel to Philadelphia, a

The biggest pain in my daily commute is bus to train station. The time's don't mesh up and theres usually a 1 -> 1.5 hour lead time. I travel to Philadelphia, and in Pennsylvania septa had discounts via uber to several stations[1]. It's ~10$ per way to the station. It's realistically the best way for me to get there, but that's an additional 200 a month. I think mass transit needs to be rethought. On the one hand when I ride buses in Wilmington they are primarily empty. I can totally understand why over the past several years they have raised the fairs, decreased running times, and condensed lines and stops. On the other I can't get really get around without a car. Due to the car first mentality uber is not heavily in demand, and prices seem higher than when I was in Philadelphia. Uber has not even entered the vocabulary of alot of people around Wilmington. So which way do you go, the bus routes are expensive and require alot of man power. Yet there's limited demand. Do you put that in a private company? I really don't trust government to vendor relations. I know they easily get overcharged. I would literally toss money at a family subscription for uber or lyft. Locking in rides at a set rate. But that would require a subsidy. I've also seen as you said, rates start small then they raise and bankrupt another party. [1] http://www.septa.org/media/releases/2016/05-25-16a.htm http://www.septa.org/media/releases/2016/05-25-16a.htm