Making Public Transit Attractive


What’s the Best Way To Get Users To Embrace Mass Transit? Make it pleasant? Or make it efficient? (Tom Vanderbilt, Slate,  Jan. 19, 2012)

Also discussed here: Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives  (Jarrett Walker, Amazon)

Today, the focus is on a new book, “Human Transit”  by Jarrett Walker which was reviewed by a leading transportation guru, Tom Vanderbilt, who sees transit in cities as either “System” or “Empathy” and delightfully gives examples of each perspective.

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