Ontario town chooses Uber over the bus

Kinja'd!!! by "valsidalv, reminding you that infiniti is an option" (valsidalv)
Published 05/18/2017 at 10:08

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With all the hate Uber gets around here I thought this would be a fun article to share!

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Innisfil is about 100 km north of Toronto has 36,000 people and no public transit. Rather than shelling out for a bus line that few people would use they partnered with Uber to create an ‘on-demand’ public transit system that the city partially subsidizes. Cool.

Edit : got Kinja’d and link was not showing up. Let’s try again, or see comments. LINK


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Kinja'd!!! "Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
05/18/2017 at 10:21, STARS: 0

No link

Kinja'd!!! "Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
05/18/2017 at 10:22, STARS: 0

Sounds kind of like what they do in Mexico (and probably elsewhere in Latin America) with the Colectivo buses, which are sort of like on-demand Uber Pools in Ford E-Series vans and similar. Hop on, pay a couple bucks, go 20 or 30 miles and hop on or off along the way.

Kinja'd!!! "valsidalv, reminding you that infiniti is an option" (valsidalv)
05/18/2017 at 10:39, STARS: 0

Kinja’d http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/innisfil-uber-partnership-launching-1.4114816

Kinja'd!!! "LOREM IPSUM" (lorem---ipsum)
05/18/2017 at 10:43, STARS: 0

It’s such a remote location, there are no links. You have to summon a friendly native to send a smoke signal, and when your uber arrives they bring the news to the next town the old fashioned way.