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Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train) by mrkstu on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:21AM (#49816632)
Or it wouldn’t exist at all in in this form…
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Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train) by Schiendelman on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:52PM (#49822406)
It would look like NYC or Tokyo. Both built privately.
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Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train) by jcranmer on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:18PM (#49823990)
NYC's subway system is an amalgamation of three systems, two of them built privately (but both of whom subsequently went bankrupt) and the third built by the city.
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Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train) by Schiendelman on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:57PM (#49852049)
Of course they went bankrupt. We built free to use roads to compete with them.
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Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train) by dcrazy on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:43PM (#49885495)
They went bankrupt in part because although privately owned, they depended on a city charter to operate, and the City used that charter to force them to keep fares unsustainably low (I believe it was a nickel).
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Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train) by Schiendelman on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:05PM (#49903089)
Same as Seattle! And thank god Japan and Hong Kong don't do that to theirs.
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