SuperShuttle is going out of business
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SuperShuttle is going out of business
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Re: SuperShuttle is going out of business
#2this is hardly surprising. a ride to SFO from my home using uber/lift is about $23. $19 using supershuttle. And I don't have to schedule anything or take a long van ride while other passengers are being dropped off.
Very unfortunately for the mom & pop supershuttle franchisees, though, with van payments and a dried up source of income.
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#3this is hardly surprising. a ride to SFO from my home using uber/lift is about $23. $19 using supershuttle. And I don't have to schedule anything or take a long van ride while other passengers are being dropped off. Very unfortunately for the mom & pop supershuttle franchisees, though, with van payments and a dried up source of income.
Damn, so sounds like a MoviePass situation? VCs subsidizing transportation now instead of entertainment?
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#4SuperShuttle hasn't served Denver International for a while. I remember seeing their vans frequently, but I have to imagine here the new airport train as well as ride sharing ate their lunch. I haven't not used the train ever since it opened.
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#5this is hardly surprising. a ride to SFO from my home using uber/lift is about $23. $19 using supershuttle. And I don't have to schedule anything or take a long van ride while other passengers are being dropped off. Very unfortunately for the mom & pop supershuttle franchisees, though, with van payments and a dried up source of income.
The one reason I take super shuttle to the airport is because I can schedule it ahead and I can at least be certain they will do whatever they can to honor the reservation. While for now uber/lyft are probably available often enough there is no guarantee that one is going to be available especially if you are flying very early or late.
Re: SuperShuttle is going out of business
#6this is hardly surprising. a ride to SFO from my home using uber/lift is about $23. $19 using supershuttle. And I don't have to schedule anything or take a long van ride while other passengers are being dropped off. Very unfortunately for the mom & pop supershuttle franchisees, though, with van payments and a dried up source of income.
In the case of SFO, BART is also a pretty good alternative in a lot of cases since it was connected to the airport. I'm usually going into the general Moscone area and, while I used to take buses now and then, I doubt if I've done so in a decade. (And I take a taxi or Uber/Lyft for other locations that the shuttles mostly don't serve very well anyway.)
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#7I miss the Quake City airport shuttle drivers at SFO. They were usually over-educated liberal arts graduates, sufficiently "alternative" in their grooming to thwart their hiring in ordinary jobs (even S.F. employers used to be uptight about that). Spent one ride home getting a useful summary of the latest Terence McKenna book.
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#8this is hardly surprising. a ride to SFO from my home using uber/lift is about $23. $19 using supershuttle. And I don't have to schedule anything or take a long van ride while other passengers are being dropped off. Very unfortunately for the mom & pop supershuttle franchisees, though, with van payments and a dried up source of income.
The one reason I take super shuttle to the airport is because I can schedule it ahead and I can at least be certain they will do whatever they can to honor the reservation. While for now uber/lyft are probably available often enough there is no guarantee that one is going to be available especially if you are flying very early or late.
You can schedule an Uber ahead of time.
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#9City to city shuttles and buses seems to be growing. The one I'd been taking from Flagstaff, AZ to Phoenix and back got bought out by a national company called Groome, while FlixBus, Megabus, and OurBus have been adding routes in Arizona (my home state) and Florida (where I live now). In Colorado there is a publicly run bus called Bustang that goes long distances including from Denver to Fort Collins. I also took a publicly run bus from Merced to Yosemite, and its service had recently expanded. There seems to be a lot happening in the space with reduced rates of car ownership [1].
I think the place they're in between got squeezed on both ends, and so did some of their customers, for whom neither UberPool nor city to city shuttles is as good of an option, or an option at all.
1: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/demographic-shif...
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The one reason I take super shuttle to the airport is because I can schedule it ahead and I can at least be certain they will do whatever they can to honor the reservation. While for now uber/lyft are probably available often enough there is no guarantee that one is going to be available especially if you are flying very early or late.
You can schedule an Uber ahead of time.
Or a Lyft!