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Re:Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes by pjc50 on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @04:50AM (#43982360)
The most Western place I encountered this was West Belfast, twenty years ago. This was after the peace agreement but before public transport had been fully restored. So there were London-style black taxis in certain areas that operated on a shared fee basis; no meter, you'd get in and agree a price, and there might be other people in there going the same way.

Important to note that this was fully private and unregulated.

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Re:Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes by htrp on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @01:25PM (#43987086)
gypsy cabs are also a negative externality particularly with unscrupulous actors
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Re:Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes by jazzyjackson on Friday May 23, 2025 @09:26PM (#44078102)
Petit cabs in Casablanca work this way, shared fee. I was only there for a few days so I couldn't make out how the metered fare was split fairly and didn't speak Arabic or French, so I usually just held out my hand full of coins and let the driver take what he wanted :^)
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