• Drun@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ah, you should see buses in my city. Dirty, thirty years old, overpopulated graves on wheels with no air conditioners.

    Never again.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      That one bus company in the nearby city that absolutely refuses to replace their miserable old buses 🥴🤡 while the others run modern air conditioned hybrids, and some fully electric

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            1 year ago

            Multiple bus companies can be a good thing if done well. The busses in Taiwan are also privatized and the service is quite good. In Japan even the metro and rail networks compete in a private market.

            When you privatize a company and make it a monopoly though you get the worst of both worlds.

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            1 year ago

            Having to buy different tickets for bus lines sounds miserable. Wtf.

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      1 year ago

      with no air conditioners.

      Dear Faust. Are they using Soviet minibuses?

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      1 year ago

      Thirty years old is a perfectly reasonable age for a big chunk of a city’s fleet. You’re still talking kneeling busses.