The most viable sort of transit in most of the USA (by land area) would be something like Uber. Unfortunately as Uber demonstrates it is very difficult to get customers to pay enough to actually cover the costs of operating it.
If you're only carrying 5 or 6 people an hour, that's 5 or 6 people who have to split the costs of an hour's worth of fuel & wear, plus the hour's wage for the driver.
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Doesn't driving a big, empty, subsidized bus (like the one I'm in right now, but in Latvia) cost more than a subsidized rural Uber?pic.twitter.com/c7G0fOQnbt
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can you even carry 5 or 6 people an hour in most of the US? seems like demand would be a lot lower
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