Sen.Schumer Calls for ‘Nerd Bus’ to Connect NYC’s New Tech Hubs

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Schumer might do better to simply do less supporting of legislation that would cripple tech startups (like SOPA).

And maybe (as Jon Stewart noted) use the term "experts" instead of "nerds":

http://ispnews.com/jon-stewart-defends-nerds-as-experts/

Nerd is a term of contempt and disrespect in the minds of power brokers at his level.

I suppose the idea is that if these engineers or "nerds" as he calls them would just work for less they'd be happen to be able to take a municipal bus to work each day.

It struck me as a little derogatory as well. Why not tech bus or hacker bus? I suppose nerd bus generates more headlines.

Actually a bus like this would be fantastic, though I think they should hold a algorithm competition to figure out the density of startups and then the shortest path for the bus to take to hit all of them. I mean the density is laid out here: http://mappedinny.com/

This is a good move forward, but most people within their right mind stay away from MTA buses.

I thought so too (sane people avoid MTA buses) and have never actually ridden one but it turns that the people who do ride them generally like them a lot.

The advantages I've heard repeatedly (compared to taking a subway) are:

1) Convenient locations for pickup/dropoff ("it's right by my [office|apartment]")

2) Easy to get cross town

3) Cell phone works (as it's above ground and most of the subway doesn't have femtocells installs)

I rode an MTA bus for the first time this past weekend with 0 knowledge of the MTA in general and had a pretty positive experience. Why are people staying away?

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