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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 27 Dec 2017

      Haunted Forrest  🌲 Retweeted Viesturs Krūmiņliepa

      if you're only carrying 5 or 6 people an hour then yes a bus's hourly fuel + wear costs are higher than a car's; driver costs ought to be comparable but the only reason Uber works at all is that they pay way below a professional ratehttps://twitter.com/briedisunrepshe/status/946068901481283585 …

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      Viesturs Krūmiņliepa @briedisunrepshe
      Replying to @380kmh
      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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    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 27 Dec 2017

      The whole point of running a bus, though, is that you expect (on average) more than 5 people an hour

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 27 Dec 2017

      Here in Western MA, our boards per revenue hour vary by route, ranging from a high of 78 to a low of 3, with a network average of 30

      9:31 AM - 27 Dec 2017
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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 27 Dec 2017

          They are still losing money, of course, because most of the costs of operations are not reflected in the more-or-less nominal fare. If we raised our base fare to around $2 and established a distance-based fare system, it might be able to make money, but the price might deter ppl

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 27 Dec 2017

          My point about Uber earlier is that they also don't charge the full cost of providing their service--unless I'm mistaken, the only thing keeping Uber fares as low as they are is that drivers are more or less expected to be working part-time, making more money from other jobs.

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        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 27 Dec 2017

          The scattered development pattern typical here is very expensive to navigate and maintain, but because few alternatives have been built, those who can afford to live in it are also stuck with some of the costs of paying for everyone else to live in it

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        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 27 Dec 2017

          The difference--the cost, for those who can't afford it, of living in sparsely developed places, which isn't paid for by wealth transfer--is experienced as grinding poverty. Sometimes that burden falls on workers whose customers are those people, as in the Uber case...

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        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 27 Dec 2017

          ...and the rest of the time, it just falls on those people directly--choosing between paying for car insurance or paying for heat and electricity, etc.

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