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It’s a Transit Network, not Just a Gaggle of Routes (opens the original)
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In Transit Planning 101, we detailed the fundamentals of good route design. In brief, if a route avoids loops, limits deviations and ends at actual destinations or places where passengers have options to continue their journey, the route likely demonstrates good route design. However, a well designed route is only as useful as the land use along it, and the transit network it’s connected to. While most US transit agencies have limit
Transit Planning 201: The Unfunded Mandate (opens the original)
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), signed into law in 1990, was a landmark declaration of the civil rights of people with disabilities. It established that disability should not be a basis for exclusion from public life, and that people living with disabilities are entitled to meaningful access to employment, public services, transportation, and the broader community. With its passage, the ADA sent ripple effects through the built environment. Curb cuts on public sidewalks, often with <a
Transit Authorities Are Just Gaggles of People (opens the original)
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I recently made the jump back to the public sector after spending the past several years working as a public sector consultant. Despite the sometimes terse relationship between consulting and the public sector, I loved my time as a consultant. Over time, I’ve learned that I’m an experiential learner, so getting to work on transit projects of all types, at systems of all sizes paid boons for my thinking about transit. <a href=
🚌Tales from the Driver's Seat: Fixed Route Edition (opens the original)
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Over the past decade I've worn a lot of hats in the transit space. I’ve been a dispatcher, planner, scheduler, de facto sign foreman, consultant, freelance writer, and most ambiguously, “intern.”1 With each perspective, I’ve been granted a fresh opportunity to deepen my understanding of how the pieces and people of a transit system co-conspire to deliver the service that actually hits the road. Still, if I had to choose one perspective that’s taught me the most, it’s bus driver. <div class="subs
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