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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017

      Serious mixed feelings about this article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/06/19/no_lyft_didn_t_accidentally_reinvent_the_city_bus.html …

      3 replies 3 retweets 14 likes
    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      Lyft is entirely correct here...pic.twitter.com/3GPLzXfCfN

      2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      Contrary to author the only difference between a transit service with buses and one with cars is how many people you can fit...pic.twitter.com/yDEeUq6s4z

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017

      ...which is to say, there's nothing fundamental about a bus which prevents a bus operator from rearranging routes based on fine-grained data

      9:15 AM - 20 Jun 2017
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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          The reason bus operators don't do that (and Lyft is unlikely to do that) is that ridership patterns are much more stable than laymen think

          1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          "Fine-grained data" is typically noise, not signal, and you'll bankrupt yourself trying to match every tiny fluctuation

          1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes
        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          As for the peak/off-peak difference in ridership, Lyft isn't planning to operate outside rush hours *at all*

          2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Lyft's "Shuttle" isn't a general, all-purpose transportation service like MUNI or even Uber; it's only serving a particular kind of trip

          2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Which is to say: it's not even adequate for serving the demand postulated in the first screencap. People who want a better bus still waiting

          1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
        7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          First bit is infuriating: troublesome riders SHOULD be booted from the service, they are a major factor in turning people away from buses!pic.twitter.com/KKEHgXhVz1

          1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes
        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          I frequently see people nodding off on heroin, making drug deals, drinking booze and then leaving the bottles as litter--kick them OFF!

          3 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
        9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Do you think most riders ENJOY dealing with belligerent or intoxicated riders? We hate it and wish you'd do something about it!

          4 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
        10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          The exclusion of poor, elderly, or illegal riders is exaggerated: as I mentioned earlier, this shuttle is worthless for general transport

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        11. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          It would exclude poor, elderly, or illegal riders who are commuting to a 9-5 office job in downtown SF from a few specific neighborhoods...

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
        12. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          ...but if they don't fit that trip profile, then it doesn't matter how rich, young, or naturalized they are: it won't be useful for them.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        13. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          "Not because people don't want to ride" Are you sure about that? Especially since routes have been cut and modernization hasn't happened?pic.twitter.com/R5yIHpB2e6

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        14. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Clearly the *absence* of pressure from Lyft et al hasn't allowed bus transit to thrive or even keep up. Lack of alternatives...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        15. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          ...hasn't been enough to keep people from avoiding the bus if at all possible.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        16. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Why AREN'T transit systems adapting? Why SHOULDN'T someone, anyone, try to provide better transit than the present mess?pic.twitter.com/6pyMV8OfGn

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        17. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          The threat of governments cutting service due to hypothetical but not actual alternatives from Lyft is real, but if you know those types...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        18. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          ...of local government, you also know that they will use any excuse in the book. "More people biking now? Great, let's cut transit." etc

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        19. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          The author's premise here seems a lot closer to "I would rather transit be miserable to ride and constantly losing money..."

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        20. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          "...than for it to be in the hands of the evil, wicked, private sector." Well, as a guy who commutes 2 hours a day by bus, I disagree.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        21. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          I don't expect Lyft is interested in, or even capable of, replacing MUNI or other transit providers. It's not going for the same market.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        22. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          But if they did, and if their transit was more pleasant to ride and less expensive to operate--how, exactly, would that be a bad thing?

          2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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