Re: Cars make more economic sense than transit: fact

[keithm@happy.dca.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <379EBA42.A730BD9C@zip.com.au> Forg <forg@zip.com.au> writes:
>From: Forg <forg@zip.com.au>
>Subject: Re: Cars make more economic sense than transit: fact
>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:07:30 +1000

>Iskandar Baharuddin wrote:
>> 
>> Matt Cremer wrote:
>> >
>> > Iskandar Baharuddin wrote in message <379D8950.37C3DD99@highway1.com.au>...
>...
>> > >There are
>> > >quite a few people who would be prepared to invest in vans or
>> > >minibuses to ferry paying passengers in and out, 7 to 20 at a
>> > >time, at a price to be negotiated.
>> > ...
>> >
>> > But isn't that public transport? Sounds a helluva lot like public
>> > transport to me; you know, where you go & get on a bus with a
>> > bunch of people you don't know, you pay a price for the
>> > journey ...
>> 
>> No, it is purely private transport.
>...

>That makes no sense to me. If you know the person, you just pay them
>"money for running costs" ... that's what we used to do going to uni.

>If you don't know the person, what the hell is the difference between
>that and a private bus company running a regular route?

It's probably ileagal when you start charging, if people give the driver 
money out of the goodness of their heart then that would be a different matter 
altogether.

Dave Malcolm
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