Wouldn’t it be the other way around ? Lobby to get a bus stop to drag more customer ?
Comment on how do they decide where to put bus stops?
lordnikon@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoDo they change the placement because a business “bribed” (i mean lobbied) for them to not to put a bus stop near them as they don’t want to see the poors near them? Yes!
Ziggurat@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
In the US I think busses are generally associated with the bottom of society, so not the customer you want. Just my interpretation
lordnikon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And homelessness the US are the ones tgat gave spikes on park benches it’s awful.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Or in the case of my city, they built a bus stop in the massive parking lot between Walmart and Sam’s Club for the opposite reason!
I’m sure it was added for both employees and customers.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah that is why I said business not store and yes this is very uniquely American.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A store is a business…
While I don’t doubt that there are places in the US that try to keep bus stops from being near businesses for the same reasons they have hostile architecture, it doesn’t seem universal at all. Touristy areas have bus stops near businesses that want tourists for example.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What I mean a business that is not a store. Think investment bank or importer B2B business or a highend appointment only boutiques
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
In my experience in Germay, the more expensive shops are closer to public transport. In the same vein apartments near public transport stops are the most sought after and therefore most expensive ones.
shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That’s amazing, it’s the complete opposite in the US haha
philpo@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Yeah, actually some companies like IKEA which often are located “on the outskirts” even pay for lines from train stations to their shops - which are for public use and often it’s a mixed deal, like the company (or sometimes a few companies, sometimes even competitors) subsidies the line during business hours and the local government pays the remaining hours.