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| People in Canada offers uber-economic travel to replace buses |
A small town in Canada is resorting to Uber to solve its public transport problem.
According to the Toronto Star, the city of Innisfil, Ontario, is partnering with the car service to provide people with subsidized travel to and from certain destinations around the city.
Mayor Gord Wauchope said the city was facing pressures to offer public transportation, so he conducted a feasibility study in 2015 and found that the operation of a single-vehicle bus service would cost about $270.000 a year. An agreement with Uber will cost the city 100.000 dollars this year and 125.000 next year. Service is expected to begin on May 1.
"This was a transit system that people can get from anywhere in the city of Innisfil, and use it at a reasonable price," said Wauchope, according to the report.
Residents will pay between $3 to $5 for travel to and from selected areas. Uber will also provide ipads in select locations through Innisfil so citizens can ask for a trip even if they don't have a smartphone.
Innisfil is the first city in Canada to do this, but a spokesman for Uber Canada, in a statement to the Toronto Star, suggested that similar deals with other Canadian cities could be on the way.
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