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Sen.Schumer Calls for ‘Nerd Bus’ to Connect NYC’s New Tech Hubs
- dzlobin 14y agoThis is a good move forward, but most people within their right mind stay away from MTA buses.
- sehrope 14y agoI thought so too (sane people avoid MTA buses) and have never actually ridden one but it turns that the people who do ride them generally like them a lot. The advantages I've heard repeatedly (compared to taking a subway) are: 1) Convenient locations for pickup/dropoff ("it's right by my [office|apartment]") 2) Easy to get cross town 3) Cell phone works (as it's above ground and most of the subway doesn't have femtocells installs)
- mdanger 14y agoI rode an MTA bus for the first time this past weekend with 0 knowledge of the MTA in general and had a pretty positive experience. Why are people staying away?
- droithomme 14y agoNerd is a term of contempt and disrespect in the minds of power brokers at his level. I suppose the idea is that if these engineers or "nerds" as he calls them would just work for less they'd be happen to be able to take a municipal bus to work each day.
- danielhughes 14y agoIt struck me as a little derogatory as well. Why not tech bus or hacker bus? I suppose nerd bus generates more headlines.
- wwweston 14y agoSchumer might do better to simply do less supporting of legislation that would cripple tech startups (like SOPA). And maybe (as Jon Stewart noted) use the term "experts" instead of "nerds": http://ispnews.com/jon-stewart-defends-nerds-as-experts/ http://ispnews.com/jon-stewart-defends-nerds-as-experts/
- topherjaynes 14y agoActually a bus like this would be fantastic, though I think they should hold a algorithm competition to figure out the density of startups and then the shortest path for the bus to take to hit all of them. I mean the density is laid out here: http://mappedinny.com/ http://mappedinny.com/