That CityLab piece about Seattle buses is full of painfully obvious statements like this which, nonetheless, apparently need to be said:pic.twitter.com/Cu1uDfNGWu
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That CityLab piece about Seattle buses is full of painfully obvious statements like this which, nonetheless, apparently need to be said:pic.twitter.com/Cu1uDfNGWu
THANK YOU Every time I see Jarrett Walker or some other transit expert whinging about Uber killing transit, my reaction is: look at Seattle. If transit is actually good, people will use it. Uber is not killing transit. It's filling the vacuum left by awful transit.
I think Walker's issue with Uber is more fair than that: he is concerned more about public officials neglecting their duty to improve transit and instead assuming that Uber will just pick up the slack and render transit obsolete
If that's the case then I'm 100% in agreement with him. Uber isn't a cure-all. But arguments from him (and many others, I don't mean to target him specifically) often don't make that nuance clear.
That frustrates me because I feel like even in cases where transit is excellent, Uber can play a complementary role which still is another piece to help move people away from personal cars.
Also, this sounds weird, but I think the debate is hurt by lack of clear nomenclature. "TNC" is clunky so people just use Uber generically like Kleenex. That inevitably leads to people focusing specifically on Uber's dubious labour practices instead of the concept as a whole.
agreed--I would prefer to just refer to them as "taxis" but that brings in all the baggage associated with taxis
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