Comment 56363

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted January 14, 2011 at 14:32:26

Tnt - why do you think such things are run under the radar? You could buy a used van for that in many places. Or monthly, you could afford a very nice new one.

There are other scheduling options, as Danya mentions, which could do a lot. As someone who works in transport, knowing where you're going even an hour ahead of time changes all of the economics - you can plan your route, overlap pick-ups and drop-offs, and share workloads far more effectively. If you were sending a package accross town, you'd have a host of options in which the price dropped as the urgency did. If you're sending yourself - you have only cabs or busses, and that's a pretty big range in terms of price/urgency.

Running a full-sized bus empty around some outlying areas makes no financial or ecological sense. Many transit services (such as Hamilton and Burlington) already meet outlying needs at off-hours with "van-cab" type services because given the demand, it makes as much sense to offer cheap cab service as to run a bus line. Clearly, there is a need for a more varied range of transit services.

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