Flutterby™! : Uber instead of buses

Next unread comment / Catchup all unread comments User Account Info | Logout | XML/Pilot/etc versions | Long version (with comments) | Weblog archives | Site Map | | Browse Topics

Uber instead of buses

2019-05-07 23:09:26.690324+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Today in "unclear on the fundamentals": ‘Uber Was Supposed To Be Our Public Transit’:

Innisfil, Ontario, decided to partially subsidize ride-hailing trips rather than pay for a public bus system. It worked so well that now they have to raise fares and cap rides.

[ related topics: Public Transportation ]

comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):

#Comment Re: Uber instead of buses made: 2019-05-13 14:06:16.56622+00 by: TheSHAD0W

Ir's a complicated question. Using Uber instead of a scheduled bus system likely brings more people to the city centers than a bus service would, as people don't have to travel as far to bus stops. This means more income at the city centers, which means more tax revenue offsetting the subsidies. You could try and analyze this, but it'd be difficult to get the numbers close.

I'd really rather there not be either taxes or subsidies.

#Comment Re: Uber instead of buses made: 2019-05-14 05:42:01.754844+00 by: Dan Lyke

Yeah, that's the thing: Charge for the externalities of automobiles, charge for parking, unbundle parking requirements, and a hell of a lot of this would drop away.

But it would also make hundreds of billions of dollars of real estate belonging to millions of voters instantly worthless, so we need, politically, to figure out how to unwind it.

Also, we're really really really bad ad actually billing for externalities, since so much of modern foreign policy, and the modern military, is about regulatory capture...

Add your own comment:

(If anyone ever actually uses Webmention/indie-action to post here, please email me)




Format with:

(You should probably use "Text" mode: URLs will be mostly recognized and linked, _underscore quoted_ text is looked up in a glossary, _underscore quoted_ (http://xyz.pdq) becomes a link, without the link in the parenthesis it becomes a <cite> tag. All <cite>ed text will point to the Flutterby knowledge base. Two enters (ie: a blank line) gets you a new paragraph, special treatment for paragraphs that are manually indented or start with "#" (as in "#include" or "#!/usr/bin/perl"), "/* " or ">" (as in a quoted message) or look like lists, or within a paragraph you can use a number of HTML tags:

p, img, br, hr, a, sub, sup, tt, i, b, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, cite, em, strong, code, samp, kbd, pre, blockquote, address, ol, dl, ul, dt, dd, li, dir, menu, table, tr, td, th

Comment policy

We will not edit your comments. However, we may delete your comments, or cause them to be hidden behind another link, if we feel they detract from the conversation. Commercial plugs are fine, if they are relevant to the conversation, and if you don't try to pretend to be a consumer. Annoying endorsements will be deleted if you're lucky, if you're not a whole bunch of people smarter and more articulate than you will ridicule you, and we will leave such ridicule in place.

Flutterby™ is a trademark claimed by

Dan Lyke
for the web publications at www.flutterby.com and www.flutterby.net.