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Autobuze ultramoderne pe străzile din San Francisco

Compania de transport public Leap Transit a lansat săptămâna aceasta o linie de autobuze de lux în San Francisco care vor parcurge ruta dintre cartierul Marina și zona centrală a orașului. Leap încearcă să inoveze transportul în comun însă se află într-o competiție destul de strânsă cu alte companii printre care se număra Loup, Uber,…

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What Mass Transit Can Learn From Elitist Buses Like Leap

LEAP, A LUXURY bus service that lets affluent San Franciscans commute between two of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods while sipping fancy coffee and enjoying free WiFi, strikes many people as the epitome of Bay Area douchebaggery.

If it takes a plush bus with wifi and Blue Bottle coffee is what it takes to lure folks away from driving, that's fewer cars on the road and more space for transit, both public and private.

Leap and others like it ... are doing many things public transportation agencies can, and should, learn from. These private transit firms have an eagerness to try new things, embrace new technologies and, most importantly, to fail.

“Transit agencies are inherently risk-averse,” says Paul Supawanich, a transportation consultant at Nelson Nygaard. “One key thing that could be learned from these new companies is their ability to try something, adjust, and iterate quickly.”

In our experience it isn't the transit agencies which are risk-averse, it's the general public demanding the status quo.

Several hundred of Lower Haight residents recently threw a childish fit over just two transit priority signal lights which would improve bike and predestrian safety along with speeding up Muni service.

If we want transit agencies which test, iterate, and adjust, we're going to have to let them get on with their jobs.