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Do you have a specific citeable example of unnecessary “custom requirements” driving up the cost of city buses in the US
by 4MOAisgoodenuf 1y ago
Do you have a specific citeable example of unnecessary “custom requirements” driving up the cost of city buses in the US
- danpalmer 1y agoMy point about the buses is about "missing the forest for the trees", so the fact that you've focused on getting a specific citable example while missing the point is quite ironic. Here's an industry article about the phenomenon: https://enotrans.org/article/a-bus-is-a-bus-the-costs-of-excess-customization/ https://enotrans.org/article/a-bus-is-a-bus-the-costs-of-exc... And here's a study documenting excess customisation as a driver of the costs: https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/paying-less-for-public-transit-buses/#:~:text=A%20final%20notable,economies%20of%20scale https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/paying-less-for... – which notes that "70 percent of contracts in the BGS data in 2024 were for unique buses".
- lozenge 1y agoWell there's one in the article, the colour of the floors.