Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is what happens when you believe the private sector is the answer to everything. We reinvent the wheel one hundred times, and each time its more square than before.

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  • helios@social.ggbox.fr ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yet somehow more expensive.

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    • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which makes it better than a bus because then I don’t have to sit next to poor people /s

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  • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They didn’t reinvent anything, private small scale shuttle buses have existed since forever. If you don’t have them in your city it doesn’t mean that’s a brand new thing.

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    • Eximius@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      whooosh

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  • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m just waiting for the Squagle.

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• Plume@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  NOW INTRODUCING: Public transports! But private! And dIsRuPTiVe!

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When public transportation was first introduced in most places, it was run by private companies for profit. This changed mostly because it wasn’t profitable to compete with cars when those became popular.

    Of course there still are private companies running public transport: long distance buses and trains in many places, and commercial aviation is really also a form of public transportation.

    So there is nothing novel about buses being run by private companies for profit.

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    • vegetal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For me it’s the marketing that makes me roll my eyes. Shuttle instead of bus when in the United States. (Curiously, in other countries it’s called bus.)

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    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      SBB is half-private.

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  • BaardFigur@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And focusing on shareholder profits and ripping of the customer

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• tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just waiting for them to reinvent light rail

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  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never heard of the Hyperloop eh?

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  • essell@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ll market it as moving at light speed too.

    ****heads.

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• blazera@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good? We need more bus routes

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We don’t need to make them Uber chartered bus routes.

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    • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why not? The more the merrier, and you, the customer, have a choice.

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    • blazera@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We need whoever is willing to provide them

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  • akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We need more public transportation, not privatized bus routes

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    • blazera@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      do we get more public transportation if we ban uber from this?

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    • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Frankly it doesn’t matter. Japan has several private companies operating rail services. Tokyo has several subway systems.

      We need more appropriately priced, accessible mass transit. I don’t care if it’s public or private.

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  • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yea I see this as a net positive. They mention concert venues. This is the perfect use case, I remember so many times struggling to get a bus after a big show because they’re packed. This could relieve that. It could increase frequency of pickups on existing routes, it’ll cut down on single passenger Ubers.

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• EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  silicon valley invented the marshrutka

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• ribhu@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait they didn’t have them in the US? We’ve had uber shuttles for years in India

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  • insaan@leftopia.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you click the article link, then use a process called “reading”, you would see:

    The company has already launched similar services abroad in Egypt, Nigeria, and India. Now it’s bringing the concept to the United States.

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    • ribhu@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gos forbid I react to the article after reading it

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    • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This person was just expressing their surprise. Why are you so pissy lmao

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    • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, they knew this by reading the article, it seemed like. They were relating it to their experience, mentioned in the article, about it existing there. They were just surprised to find out they had it before the US. This doesn’t really denote them not having read the article.

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the point is, unlike buses with fixed routes, such shuttles could deliver people to places that face temporary massive traffic - like concert venues or whatnot.

  There is no need to constantly run huge amounts of buses there, but at some point of time there’s a lot of people willing to go there - and such shuttles may be the solution.

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  • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because nobody in any public transit board has ever implemented such a thing?

    In North Carolina, park and ride busses for the state fair have long been a thing, among a litany of several other examples.

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    • erwan@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just because it’s not a completely new concept doesn’t mean it’s stupid.

      It can bring value even if it’s a small iterative innovation over existing buses.

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I spent way too long ignoring the park and rides at major events. Then I started paying attention and they always had them and it was always so much nicer. No more excessively long walking, no more mpossible traffic getting in and out.

      As long as the event clearly highlights park and ride options, it’s fantastic and has been going on forever. These events pay the bus charter companies to generally provide rides free of charge to the riders.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, I’m all for a public alternative!

      I just like the general idea.

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  • Omgboom@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a bus stop at our local sports arena, so no it’s exactly like our bus system

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cool then!

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• casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do people consider shuttles and buses the same thing? Because this sounds like a shuttle, which as far as I’m aware is completely different from a bus. I take a shuttle to the airport, which requires a reservation and ~$50 whereas I take a bus to get around town and it’s typically free.

  Essentially it sounds like they are trying to dip into the shuttle market, not the inner-city bus market. Though maybe both?

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  • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whatever you have to tell yourself to avoid sounding like you’re using the same transportation method as the commoners.

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    • casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      … the reading comprehension level of the average Lemmy user scares me

      I literally said that I take the bus. And the shuttle.

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not a brilliant new idea, it’s a good old one. Jitneys are back baby!

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