It is! It's called Muni. And it's quite possible the individual bus routes that Lyft is paralleling make money individually.
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It's a general problem with private vanshares: they skim profit from the thickest routes that would otherwise cross-subsidize other routes.
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Lyft doesn't just want to cherry pick affluent routes. They want to do it without unions/benefits.
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All the people outraged about this annoy me. You want transit for poor people? Sell the value for *everyone* NOT how it's progressive .
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We can debate cost/benefit of policies such as landlines’ Universal Access but there ARE national interests beyond private cos’ interests
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these guys want to skim most lucrative routes but i'm not sure there's a way to make it work profitably.
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Roads also lose money!
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Many American transit authorities are not great at selling land (see: NFTA). Low output America only
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not to be all
#wellactually, but as you know, basically all transit loses $ -
Given fuel subsidies, road infrastructure cost, and enviro/health cost, mass public transit costs much less public $ than private auto
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Most public transit loses money. If the public wants this to be accessible, must fund/subsidize vouchers or fund public alternative.