That's what I'm saying. Proper public transit that gets places on schedule. Not the current best-effort crap across most of the US, if your area even has public transit to begin with.

I don't care how cheap a Lyft or Uber looks, it's being subsidized (venture cap, baybee) to be cheap. Just like the gas you put in a (non EV) car.

You're not selling me on "just another app bro". You've been captured by the automotive industry. The whole country has.

Uber is not subsidizing rides, it's the transit operator that made a deal with them. Ordering with the normal app costs more than $3.

Ride share apps are profitable today because they double and triple dip on every ride. They charge you as much as they can, add hidden fees with political messages, make you pay their taxes and then take most of it for themselves and leave the driver with a poverty wage.

Uber uses dynamic pricing on both sides of the transaction to "discover the fair market value", aka how little they can pay drivers before they reject the offer and how much they can charge you for a ride.

I don't think this can be fixed with transit alone because building a proper network takes time and there will always be situations where you want to get from point A to B as fast as possible (coming late to the airport, going home drunk, missed a bus that runs twice a day). There is a place for ride share apps in the economy, and instead of fighting it we can start a state supported non profit app that gives drivers a 90% cut and lets them set their own price schedule. Make it fair for workers and cheap for users.