Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California

Re:Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down tempora... by gamblor956 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @02:17PM (#24135043)

LA's public transportation system has one of the largest geographic footprints in the world. Most of the system is buses rather than fixed rail lines, but the rails run from Downtown to Hollywood, Pasadena, Santa Monica/Culver City, and Long Beach. Prior to COVID, more than 1.3 million people used LA Metro each week.

Sure, and it's possible for me to canoe to Antarctica but it's not a reasonable way for anyone to travel.

What an extremely narrow and privileged worldview you have. No wonder people hate techies so much these days...

Every day, more than a million people use CA's public transportation systems to travel between cities for work, even now during COVID. I guess they're all being unreasonable.

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Re:Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down tempora... by xyzzy_plugh on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:47PM (#24136783)

I took CA public transportation every working day for 5 years. Compared to the rest of the world, it's unreasonable.

Trains and buses are infrequent and have terrible evening/weekend schedules. Sure, during rush hour they can likely be faster than the incredibly overcrowded Californian roads, but otherwise they're crap. They're also not exactly cheap!

It's no surprise why Uber & friends started in the bay area, and why it's so popular there. They had no competition. The transit in these places is like the bare minimum possible. It doesn't even come close to touching world-class transit systems popular all over the world.

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