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Rich customer here is not like 1% rich, but everyone above a min. wage job rich. If you remove them from the public system ridership drops signficantly and the
by skeeter2020 1y ago
Rich customer here is not like 1% rich, but everyone above a min. wage job rich. If you remove them from the public system ridership drops signficantly and the scale required to support it erodes. It also becomes much easier to get concensus to reduce funding, accelerating the process.
The argument here is more like Canada's public/private healthcare: anyone able to will opt out of the public side. If you don't keep the funding for it in place it will be comparably worse. I would expect it is much easier to cut funding to public transit with less riders, which this will definitely cause.
- crazygringo 1y agoThat's stretching the definition of "rich" beyond any possible meaning. But yes, if you want to talk about the middle-class, which is what you seem to actually be referring to, let's. In most cities, they've already dropped out of buses. They take their own cars. A more expensive bus service like Uber's probably isn't going to taking much ridership away from public buses, but rather give middle-class people more options, so maybe they don't need a second car. And again, bus systems are remarkably scalable. Unlike things like subways and light rail. Routes and capacity are extremely flexible. Just because there are more transportation options, doesn't mean there's going to be a demise of city buses.