It's probably helpful to think of the service as like a mini bus that provides an extra transfer point. You're getting some great efficiencies from all of the s

It's probably helpful to think of the service as like a mini bus that provides an extra transfer point. You're getting some great efficiencies from all of the services that way. If you keep a few of these vans in a neighborhood instead of going from south of Seattle to north of Seattle, you can keep using the vans for that area over and over again. Going straight point A to point B in an Uber means it needs to now pick someone up at point B to gain any efficiency. > why have a taxpayer funded version of Uber that isn’t even as good as Uber? Because that's not the point of the service at all. Its to get you to your next transfer point and that's it. The problem with everyone using an Uber is that it doesn't scale, but public transit does scale.