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I hope they sell this to cities. We would seriously regret the privatization of public transit.
by habosa 7y ago
I hope they sell this to cities. We would seriously regret the privatization of public transit.
- quickthrower2 7y agoWhat if multiple competing companies run fleets? Like taxi companies. No one player to rort all the riders?
- michaelt 7y agoLast time I visited a city with multiple competing bus companies, each had their own return tickets and annual passes that only work on their busses. I naively brought a return ticket for the green bus company from the train station, and when it came time to return that meant I couldn't get the black bus or the pink bus that came to the stop before the next green bus. Needless to say, if each bus company runs two busses an hour, such a system changes a one-bus-every-ten-minutes route into a one-bus-every-thirty-minutes if two thirds of the busses won't accept your ticket.
- Grue3 7y agoPeople always bring up Japan when describing how nice public transportation is, but almost all "public transport" is privatised over there. Meanwhile everyone's complaining about municipal transport in the USA.