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Title: Uber Public Transit?
Post by: Jericoke on August 09, 2017, 05:54:23 PM
https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/09/innisfil-saved-73500-by-using-uber-as-a-public-transportation-service/ (https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/09/innisfil-saved-73500-by-using-uber-as-a-public-transportation-service/)

A town near where I live has conducted an experiment using Uber as public transit.  It doesn't make sense for a town of 35,000 to buy buses, yet not everyone can own a car or pay taxi rates either.  City hall subsidizes Uber, so it costs $5 to get to common destinations.  The costs to the tax payer is about a third of what the cost of a bus system would be.

Damnit, I'm used to hating Uber https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/08/04/ubers-search-for-a-female-ceo-has-been-narrowed-down-to-3-men/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/08/04/ubers-search-for-a-female-ceo-has-been-narrowed-down-to-3-men/), but this can solve some very real problems!
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