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Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes

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491 points anigbrowl | 1 comments | 14 May 25 04:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.39s | source
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zaptheimpaler ◴[14 May 25 05:21 UTC] No.43981102[source]▶
China is the only modern country that has both the capability and the lack of bureaucracy to just do things like this. It's simultaneously amazing to see and a depressing reminder of how badly western societies are crippled by rules of their own making. It would take years to make a single new bus route in any city, I don't think I've ever even seen that happen.
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mcintyre1994 ◴[14 May 25 08:05 UTC] No.43982104[source]▶
Cities in the UK are adding new bus routes all the time, why wouldn’t you be able to do that?
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9283409232 ◴[14 May 25 12:34 UTC] No.43983751[source]▶
Philadelphia Republicans are proposing cuts to bus and rail service including a 9 PM transit curfew. Expanding service is more difficult than you may think in the US because transit is underfunded and the 1st target for cuts.
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rsynnott ◴[14 May 25 13:34 UTC] No.43984351[source]▶
> including a 9 PM transit curfew

What the hell? That just seems bonkers. Here, the city council is berating the transport authority for slow rollout of 24 hour routes...

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1. amanaplanacanal ◴[14 May 25 17:32 UTC] No.43987141[source]▶
Where I live, most routes don't run at all on Sundays or holidays, and even the days they do run it's only once an hour. I suspect these are typical US service levels.