Taking corporate shuttle makes me realized, the reason why people don’t take the bus is because they don’t want to be side by side with crazies. Why not make a bus service with badge access only and subscription payments? Only people with jobs can ride it. #uber #lyft engineers, go make it happen!
I didn’t ride a bus when I worked at Facebook because it was much faster door to door driving myself.
It’s not about who will use it, it’s about who will run it. It’s a loss making business only government ( you! ) can afford. Sound Transit in Seattle area runs on car tabs fee extortion !who are you going to extort?
I don't think people without jobs are crazies. The reason we don't use transit is because it's horribly slow. In Europe and new York people use it inspite of "crazies". For transit to be efficient you want to 10x the users not add more filters to who can afford.
Public transit is unsafe in the Bay Area. Avoid it at all cost.
Where have you used it? I use it every day (lived in SF/ Oak/ Berkeley) during most of my time here and it's not unsafe.
Something like this? https://blacktietrans.com/services/corporate-commuter-services/
It’s been tried several times and always failed. Bus services are hard to run, expensive to set up and it’s a difficult sale to most consumers as you need to find a sweet spot between people who are willing to take a bus and can afford the service while not preferring Lyft/Uber/personal car/walking/subway/regular bus. In addition, regular bus service will almost for sure have a far more extensive route and frequency at lower cost than yr bus service initially, so there needs to be a really special reason to use yr service
Yea I remember taking a bus in one of those startups and they folded eventually, public transit is a tough one to crack
How exactly will the logistics work? Is it a subscription service and the bus will run certain routes? Or pay per use
That would be unfair to bums who pay nothing and need a place to smoke fent in bad weather conditions . Surely local government would step in and force you to be more inclusive of those with self destructive, violent, antisocial behaviors. Thats how it works in Seattle. I don’t know about other cities.
Then we need local government to fund a salary of security guard to expel the fent smokers too .. cant have it both ways
It will be great to see bus service for kids to drive them to school in Bay Area.
We can call it medicab. Jokes aside, I would use it if there were no transfers and the stops were relatively close together