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>>They are strictly private enterprises and aren't subsidized. I guess this is a deviation of definition, "public transport" in the US is government run, regu

>>They are strictly private enterprises and aren't subsidized. I guess this is a deviation of definition, "public transport" in the US is government run, regulated, and subsidized by government. There are no private "public transport" in the form of local buses, trains, etc. They are either quasi government run (amtrak) or directly government run "Transportation Authority" often run by city or state governments. Airlines are private though at this point HEAVILY subsidized as most airports are government run, and they get bailouts all the time... I can not think of a single mass transportation system in the US that is not either directly owned by the government or HEAVILY subsidized by government >>Why is this accepted? Good question...

cozzyd 3y ago
University shuttle systems, shuttles to industrial parks, megachurch parking shuttles, theme park transit...
- phpisthebest 3y ago
  None of the universities with in a 100 mi of me have their own shuttle busses, they all utilize the local City Owned public buses they do not have their own bus network. they might rent some during a sporting event but it not "public transport" it would be ticketed event holders... Further almost if not all of the universities are "public" and should be consider quasi government as they have their own police dept's, and are heavily subsidized by the government >>shuttles to industrial parks, megachurch parking shuttles, theme park transit. none of these are public transportation, they may be "mass transportation" but they are not generally open to the general public, they are for the use of people going to or in those private properties, further most do not even travel on the public road system or pickup from "public" places, they are moving people from parking lots to entrances. poor examples
  - smolder 3y ago
    The state university I grew up near in NYS was serviced by a private bus system for more than a decade. I don't remember much about it other than the busses being painted blue and being full of college students.
jdietrich 3y ago
>There are no private "public transport" in the form of local buses, trains, etc. That isn't strictly true. A number of (predominantly ethnic minority) communities are served by entirely privately-operated bus services, created mainly to fill gaps in publicly-subsidised services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_vans_in_the_New_York_metropolitan_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_vans_in_the_New_York_me... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines

cozzyd 3y ago

University shuttle systems, shuttles to industrial parks, megachurch parking shuttles, theme park transit...

phpisthebest 3y ago
None of the universities with in a 100 mi of me have their own shuttle busses, they all utilize the local City Owned public buses they do not have their own bus network. they might rent some during a sporting event but it not "public transport" it would be ticketed event holders... Further almost if not all of the universities are "public" and should be consider quasi government as they have their own police dept's, and are heavily subsidized by the government >>shuttles to industrial parks, megachurch parking shuttles, theme park transit. none of these are public transportation, they may be "mass transportation" but they are not generally open to the general public, they are for the use of people going to or in those private properties, further most do not even travel on the public road system or pickup from "public" places, they are moving people from parking lots to entrances. poor examples
- smolder 3y ago
  The state university I grew up near in NYS was serviced by a private bus system for more than a decade. I don't remember much about it other than the busses being painted blue and being full of college students.

jdietrich 3y ago

>There are no private "public transport" in the form of local buses, trains, etc. That isn't strictly true. A number of (predominantly ethnic minority) communities are served by entirely privately-operated bus services, created mainly to fill gaps in publicly-subsidised services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_vans_in_the_New_York_metropolitan_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_vans_in_the_New_York_me... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines