If TD wants us to use the name, they can pay us.

I never, ever give those corporations the credit and use their name. Why should I publicize them, especially when taxpayers are paying the freight? So I always refer to the Boston Garden or the New Boston Garden. The Canadiens play in the Nouveau Forum, the Canucks in the New Pacific Coliseum, the Chargers until…

Wow, finally a good teen.

Sure, make the elderly, the disabled, and not to mention students, pay for a Lyft. Also, buses can move dozens of people at a time. Not so with a car.

I would explore means of improving that form of transportation rather than closing my eyes and plugging my ears and hoping it all goes away by ignoring it.

I’ve done that for about 25 years. The kind of incident you are obsessing over happens, but in my experience far more rarely than you are making out, but in any case it has never stopped me from continuing to use public transportation. You’ve made your issues quite clear, thank you.

yes, it’s a bus. but it’s worse: it’s a fucking charter school. like, you can improve a shared public good (buses) or you can add a private company into the mix, and take away from the public good, thus creating adverse selection for the public good by skimming the customers away. that in turn will lead to worse…

Transit agencies could have adequate means to address these concerns if they received adequate funding. Taking your fare elsewhere is only going to make that problem worse and is only going to provide benefit to private investors instead of the general public.

So your problem with public transit is the public, not the transit. Hate to break it to you but transit agencies aren’t allowed to discriminate against people based on whether or not they have a permanent domicile. To avoid your own neighbors and the problems they face by opting out of public services because you have…

And the techno-libertarian assault on basic public infrastructure continues....

You’re using a 23 year old case that has since been fully incorporated into transit agency decision-making at local, state, and federal levels as a reason why transit sucks today? I work for a transit agency and before we conduct any service change we’re required to evaluate whether that change would have a…

Well, maybe you should focus on investing in public transportation that supports everyone and not isolate yourself any further from the rest of the inhabitants.

Won’t someone think of the venture capitalists?

It’s like a bus, but instead of supporting social programs with your fare (ew!!!) you support a Silicon Valley start-up (yay!!!)

I could see the value if it were outside commuter hours when public transit runs less frequently, but as it is this just seems redundant.

It’s an expensive venture capital funded bus for non-plebes.

No, this is a ridesharing disruptor service. You’re confused because it sounds very similar.

So... it’s a bus.

Folks......... this is a bus

Also known as a bus.