...it turns out $0.60 is too much for some people to pay, too. It strikes me that trying to set the price based on the ability of the poorest to pay is an unviable strategy. Right off the bat, it guarantees that our bus service will depend heavily on the charity of non-riders...
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An on-demand service somewhere between existing paratransit and Uber; subsidized by taxpayers as part of the social safety net. Operated independently of any fixed-route transit, which has very different needs and strategies, and can (at least potentially) make profit.
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The makeup of ridership vs coverage varies wildly between agencies, smaller agencies may have a majority of coverage-only routes. Should agencies be left only with a few routes to serve, and how does the handoff of routes happen between entities?
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Not sure how the handoff/transition would go. Nothing wrong with a one-route agency though, in principle
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