"It's occassionally cheaper to provide poor with a huge Uber voucher than with rent subsidy."
Failing that, let them eat cake.
Uber, taxi service, and most forms of public transportation do not exist at all in rural areas.
Failing that, let them eat cake.
Uber, taxi service, and most forms of public transportation do not exist at all in rural areas.
Anyway, out here in the middle of nowhere, Uber, taxi and (high frequency) bus service are not economically viable. Low population means low numbers of fares means low suppliers means long delays for service means lower numbers of fares. All of which is made worse by distances.
Medium and large cities do have taxi service and public transport, but those are lower priority since everyone has a car.
WRT "made worse by distances" Bay Area is actually pretty sprawling itself. I don't think any rural community will have its points of interests further apart than Bay Area has.
But even these are for micropolitan areas with populations on the order of 40,000. There is still no service for more remote areas.