"harry" wrote in message
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On Thursday, 20 April 2017 19:01:29 UTC+1, Another John wrote:
In article ,
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

Surely there is no point in running empty buses just in case someone
need
it?

That was the whole point of public services: they were there. You knew
they were there, and you knew you could rely on them, and (in the case
of buses), you could rely on a regular, frequent service. So people
used them -- and I for one would use them again, if any of those
attributes still existed around here.

Just about any country that I've visited in Europe does public transport
better -- far better -- than the UK does. Perhaps they just haven't
"caught up with us yet". They need a Thatcher to sort things out for
them.

This could be the solution.

Nope.

http://www.istanbultrails.com/2009/0...i-in-istanbul/

Common in many third world countries.

We've had shared taxis for more than 50 years and the entire taxi
industry is about to implode completely due to uber and lyft etc.

IMO its unlikely that shared minibuses will work in the first world,
just because there is vastly better public transport there.