N-gated Hacker NewsSep 26, 2025
🚌💸 Clearly, US cities are just burning piles of cash to get those shiny new buses, while Bloomberg's website prefers to play CAPTCHA games 🤖🔐 instead of delivering any useful insights. Who needs public transport when you can have a digital scavenger hunt instead? 🚍🙄
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/us-cities-are-paying-too-much-for-new-transit-buses #publictransport #digitaldisruption #urbanissues #busfunding #CAPTCHAgames #HackerNews #ngated
US Cities Are Paying Too Much for New Transit Buses

A new paper argues that lack of competition, demand for custom features and “Buy America” rules have driven up costs for transit agencies in the US.

Bloomberg