if you wanted to live on the subway but not a particular line.
Tag: transit
Improve NYC wayfinding
this would be a very cheap, but highly effective, intervention
The MTA Is Not Apologizing
heh
Real Time transit data increases ridership
could be much higher if it wasn’t so janky, plus more reliable.
A new study of a real-time bus arrival program in New York City offers an encouraging (if qualified) answer: it does generate new trips, though mostly for high-traffic routes. Candace Brakewood of the City College of New York and collaborators analyzed ridership patterns following the city’s roll-out of its Bus Time website. In a new paper they report a 2% in ridership that works out to upwards of $6.3M in new revenue over the 3-year study period:
Subway Tips
learn, or regret.
Selfdriving Transit
driverless buses are a much easier problem than driverless cars, and their space-efficiency will continue to be crucial in busy corridors where even driverless cars will add up to gridlock.
Missing the G
the new nyc anthem
Shanghai Metro
What a competent subway looks like
meanwhile in NYC the MTA doesn’t want to add these barriers to the “new” second ave subway line (to be completed in 2050) because it would make the rest of the system look bad.
Bus bunching
MTA Bustime is progress (i wish all transit systems had this), but it just makes it painfully obvious how terribly run the MTA bus system is: busses always cluster together, instead of being properly spaced.
2015-05-21: It seems the reason (in NYC) is the inefficient boarding, which causes delays.
Click and hold a bar below to delay its respective bus. Note how even a short delay causes the buses to bunch together after a while. Hover over a stop to see its history. The area of the curve is cumulative wait time. Bunching makes the area
Efficient bus networks
you can measure city development by how it treats its pedestrians. by this measure, places like dallas are really no better than 3rd world cities.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 