Eh, you know, I'm a bit ambivalent about this. On the one hand it sounds nice, on the other it's privatization of a public good.
Maybe Googs will make the system more efficient, I don't know, but it looks a bit like biting away at the responsibility of government. We're going in the other direction with respect to healthcare. Why go towards privatization in this case? What do we privatize next, road maintenance?
Certainly Google could make the court system more efficient, should we let them have a hand at it too?
To be clear it's not the privatization that I'm hot for, it's the cheaper provision of more transit service. That's just one narrative that I think might be compelling the traditional transit opposition. And of course privatization isn't a foregone conclusion there either. Google could simply sell to transit agencies. There are other aspects of fleet management that they might simply not want to get into.
Maybe Googs will make the system more efficient, I don't know, but it looks a bit like biting away at the responsibility of government. We're going in the other direction with respect to healthcare. Why go towards privatization in this case? What do we privatize next, road maintenance?
Certainly Google could make the court system more efficient, should we let them have a hand at it too?