Shanghai's on-demand bus routes!

上海随叫随停公交线路!

Round Table China

2025-05-27

22 分钟
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Imagine designing your own commute. In Shanghai, a crowd-sourced platform now allows riders to propose and vote on new bus routes. With sufficient demand, your dream bus line could be operational in as little as three days! Could this innovation fundamentally reshape our approach to public transportation? / Our childhood “a bei bei” holds psychological power (17:05). On the show: Heyang, Steve Hatherly & Yushan.
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  • discussion keeps the world turning this is round table You're listening to Roundtable with myself,

  • He Young.

  • I'm joined by Yushan and Steve Hatherly in the studio.

  • Coming up, what if you could design your own bus route like ordering takeout?

  • Well, kinda.

  • Pick the time, the stop, and even the fellow passengers.

  • Shanghai's doing just that.

  • Could this reshape how we think about public transport?

  • And...

  • Perhaps to a certain age, we all had that one object we couldn't let go of.

  • An old stuffed toy, a threadbare blanket, maybe even a cracked coffee mug.

  • It's not that stuff.

  • It's not just stuff.

  • It's comfort.

  • It's our Abebe.

  • Do you still have one?

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