Bus — Tycoons 2021

You have spent fifty years acting as the humble servant of the transit authority. No more. When the city council demands a “fare holiday,” demand a tax abatement in return. When the environmentalists whine about your 2012 fleet, show them the math on new electric buses (hint: you can’t afford them yet, but they can subsidize them). Play hardball. You hold the monopoly on mass movement in the real world.

How’d that work out?

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While tech bros are paying $500 million for a server farm in the desert, you’re sitting on acres of prime real estate at the edge of every downtown. That asphalt lot? That maintenance bay with the hydraulic lift? That’s a logistics hub. Rent space to last-mile delivery vans. Sell power to electric fleets. Turn your waiting room into a micro-retail point. Your fixed costs are already paid—everything else is just printing cash. You have spent fifty years acting as the