Uber to Introduce Bus ⇥ techcrunch.com

Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch:

Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S. cities — one solution to a world that feels, for most people, more expensive every day.

This is a bus. A worse, less efficient bus. And, with a half-priced discount compared to a standard Uber ride, a very expensive bus at that.

I suppose this is an obvious next step for the progenitor company for undermining existing infrastructure to the benefit of rich people. Uber is rolling this out in cities like Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco — and I think they may already have public transit. What would be better for everybody is if we just improved trains and buses for everyone. But that requires money in the public purse, and Uber dodges taxes despite benefitting from taxpayer-funded programs.