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Once Uber puts everyone else out of business, their costs might rise (Addie Lee are dropping fares and driver pay so how long will they stay around?).
So the cheaper option will still be bus. Fuck it, make the buses free. Lots of people will take free over paid for service.
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So the cheaper option will still be bus. Fuck it, make the buses free. Lots of people will take free over paid for service.>
Buses should be free. The usual arguments against free buses of over-crowding, dirt and poor service are bogus. Free public transport also does not preclude for-pay commerical ventures such as Leap Transit in SF-- which filed Chapter 7 last July-- or taxi services. The bad experience in the US with free transit-- where the buses became abused and turned into homeless shelters-- does not hold water-- neither does the overcrowding nor slower service arguments since both can be easily addressed (albeit generally with also significantly slower auto traffic due to traffic light optimization favouring public transport).
EdwardZ
This is all getting a bit mind boggling.
Going back to the increased traffic predictions - we're already in a place where, as I read the other day, we've got almost 100,000 private hire cars on the road in London. A huge number of those are Ubers - I read Uber want to have 45,000 cars on the road, I think. I find it interesting that the increase in private hire vehicles is almost never mentioned when talking about traffic and pollution. Most of the time it's blamed on roadworks, infrastructure, #bloodycyclists, lorries etc. All of these are contributors (except us cycling cunts, obviously), but a huge daily increase in vehicles means more traffic. It's rather simple.
Many friends of mine habitually use an Uber instead of taking the bus, much to my chagrin. Certainly if you've got a young kid it's a lot easier to use an Uber, and it's so cheap now.
Extrapolate to driverless cars - they'll be cheaper and more available. Who the fuck's gonna use a bus any more? The roads are going to be clogged.