Posted on 04/05/2015 1:17:20 PM PDT by rightistight
A bus union leader is saying that she is “triggered” whenever she thinks about private buses that are becoming popular in San Francisco.
Leap, one such company, is gaining popularity in the city for their luxury buses and comfortable seating. Not all people are happy with such start-up businesses.
The San Francisco Transit Riders Union, for example, is upset at companies like Leap. SFTRU for short, the union describes itself as “A rider-based, grassroots organization working to improve transit in San Francisco.”
Ilyse Magy, a representative for the union, said that not only are private buses classist, but they are causing her emotional problems.
“I get triggered when I think about all of the people who don’t have access to Leap,” she says. People who use Leap are also “privileged,” she continues.
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If you REEEEAAAAALY are “A rider-based, grassroots organization working to improve transit in San Francisco.” you would welcome competition showing the city how it's done.
maybe the public is tired of dirty, smelly, and often very-overcrowded transit buses .. (including the ones the drivers, and others, use as toilets)
a little free market competition can only help....
To all Liberal Socialists: Check your WHINE priveledge!
A perfect example of the evils of capitalism. Some people end up being poorer than others. No fair. The rich should be forced to ride the smelly, uncomfortable buses.
Maybe these buses ARE elitist in some sense. But the difference between me and the people in this story is that I don’t feel a compulsion to do anything about it. If some people want to pay to ride high-end buses, I’m not going to stop them unless it creates a REAL PROBLEM.
Aw, poor babies.
Funny thing is that replacing streetcars with buses was supposed to break monopolies (most were owned and operated by the big power companies) and return street-borne mass transit competition to the private sector. And then of course, the cities and states took over the bus networks, deeming the competition “too fierce” among other things . . .
If these buses are a problem, then privately owned cars must signal the end of life as we know it.
Lady, you have had emotional and psychological problems far longer than this outfit has been around, far far longer.
That pic always cracks me up. My sister sent out an email years ago, asking friends if they minded if a couple of their mutual acquaintances could stay a few days, that they were driving across the country. She then put this picture at the bottom of the email.
Poor people - that is, “people of color” - don’t have access to your car, either, do they? You can see where this is going.
“Libertarian philosophy” is not what supports these private ventures. It is consumers allowed free choice in a free market to patronize these services.
I wonder if THIS union, like many others, was started on the promise of better everything for transit workers, riders and everybody; and soon became a fiefdom with a few liberal fatcats at at the top, raking in big salaries, while the bus system went to the dogs?
This whole thing is HYSTERICAL. Look up “Gentrification” on Wikipedia and they have the Google Bus as an example.
If, some day, one of my kids manages to land a job at Google, I will DEMAND (actually, just encourage), him/her to live in San Fran, right in THE MISSION, as they have GREAT BURRITOS there, and take the GOOGLE BUS every day to work - just to stick it in their faces.
Private buses deprive the middle class of the punishment it needs to stay humble. Or scared.
I enjoy watching poor leftists and rich leftists fight. May both sides lose.
“Maybe these buses ARE elitist in some sense. But the difference between me and the people in this story is that I don’t feel a compulsion to do anything about it.”
Having the power to make a choice between public and private forms of transportation make you an elitist and thus, not a slave. Slaves aren’t allowed to make choices.
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