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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by cmdrfred on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:35PM (#13776824)
> Passenger rail is currently a tiny and largely ignored minority of overall traffic.

Exactly. Why do you assume it can scale to the point that it can replace all other forms of transportation? Rail is only cheap and efficient because those are the markets they selected to service, it won't scale up.

If it can why not get some investors and prove everyone else wrong?

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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by Retric on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:41PM (#13776881)
> Multi billion dollar subsides subsidies.
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