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 …
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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
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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
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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
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I frequently see people nodding off on heroin, making drug deals, drinking booze and then leaving the bottles as litter--kick them OFF!
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Do you think most riders ENJOY dealing with belligerent or intoxicated riders? We hate it and wish you'd do something about it!
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The exclusion of poor, elderly, or illegal riders is exaggerated: as I mentioned earlier, this shuttle is worthless for general transport
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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...
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...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.
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"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
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Clearly the *absence* of pressure from Lyft et al hasn't allowed bus transit to thrive or even keep up. Lack of alternatives...
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...hasn't been enough to keep people from avoiding the bus if at all possible.
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Why AREN'T transit systems adapting? Why SHOULDN'T someone, anyone, try to provide better transit than the present mess?pic.twitter.com/6pyMV8OfGn
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The threat of governments cutting service due to hypothetical but not actual alternatives from Lyft is real, but if you know those types...
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...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
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The author's premise here seems a lot closer to "I would rather transit be miserable to ride and constantly losing money..."
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"...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.
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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.
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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?
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most bus systems don't operate for profit. this skims off the rich riders who will no longer want to pay taxes to support buses, no?
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What rich riders? If a wealthy SFer uses the bus at all, he will find this shuttle is very far from an adequate replacement
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i don't know. I don't live in a city and have no data on who uses buses.
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