How America Ended Up Paying So Much for Public Buses

Transportation in the US has become a huge boondoggle…look at BART in CA and also the Bullet train

Custom busses, custom ambulances – good Lord! Some municipalities have too much money.

Bottom line, corporate greed & avarice. Public interests be damned 😞

It makes more sense to use smaller vehicles and have an app that the system would be responsive to user needs instead of driving expensive mostly empty vehicles around cities

Corrupt Politician scum kickback to cronies.

public $ is always the most generous. To support anything means you are willing to pay more.

Because public transport doesn't make the bulk of its revenue from fares. It makes money from the properties it owns around large stations that are leased out (ie. office space, malls, store fronts). Use the foot traffic brought by public transport to power rental property prices that are then used to subsidize the actual fare prices. Supporting public transport on fares alone is a tough task.

The main manufacturers of electric buses are Chinese, like BYD & Yutong, not so much Hyundai. But your anti-China policies, citing non-existing issues like national security etc, has tied your hands.

Taxpayer’s money being spent by bureaucrats who didn’t.
That’s why Americans should reject public transportation.

Shes so proud of whats shes saying, except its actually a word salad that doesnt do anything for anyone

When you spend someone elses money you dont care the cost

Lafayette, LA gave a company $140k to "upgrade" 13 buses with GPS tracking… A town with 9 bus routes 😂

I am from india… I always travel by bus….. Here the prices are 10 , 15,20,25 rupees….. Upto 3-4 kilometre you have to pay 10 rupees and in 25 rupees you can travel one side upto maximum destination 😊😊

Something not mentioned is that there are no US owned bus manufacturers as the original vehicle manufacturers that pushed diesel buses as the next big step in transit, like GM and Ford, have all but pulled out of the game just like they are doing now to shift the car market from sedans to SUV's. This is a major issue with the Build America requirement forcing local manufacturing of the buses, greatly increasing the cost of foreign made buses which are currently the only option. The closest we had to one was Nova bus of Canada, but they pulled out of the US market last year to focus solely on sales in their own country.

USA can't make theyr own busses?

The fee to ride a bus is generally higher in the USA compared to Europe. The buses are slower, less entrances and exits, less frequent. Also the driver in the USA checks the fares which slows down boarding considerably. Add that time loss for 30/50 stops.

Electric buses are very expensive period. I think over a million is correct for electric buses, though I have no information as prices are secretive in the industry. In the Uk we are buying lots more Chinese buses as they are cheaper, but when riding them the build quality is poor. American build quality is very poor, but there is no incentive to improve quality because of the buy America act. If you want cheaper buses then let operators buy buses wherever they want which will then drive down costs and increase innovation.
As for the disparity of prices. If one company buys one or two buses and another group buys hundreds of buses over a two year period , the one buying more buses is going to get an overall better bulk buying deal per bus.

Politicians are not concerned, they are not spending their money.

So many thieves milking out tax payers in US

Why bring on a Havard-Epstein affiliate who has never ridden a bus in his life?

eww bloomberg, dont sue steve pls

36ft yutong bus (largest bus manufacturer in the world) goes for $150k😂 their buses are widely seen in other parts of the world just not in the US. Same thing with the ban on chinese passenger EVs, though the only thing with ev buses is that its technically paid by public funding and imagine how much corruption is going on behind that 1m price tag 😂

two busses designed and engineered and headquartered in CANADA! Trump says USA does not need CANADA!!!!!