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All-door Boarding and Fare Evasion
Jarrett Walker has a post over on Human Transit about all-door boarding being added to buses in San Francisco. He makes the point that the perception of fare evasion is often much worse than the reality. I’ve experienced that many times over the years in discussions of streetcar fare policy. The honor system means that…
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Pros and Cons of Center- vs. Curb-Running Bus Rapid Transit
The City of Boston has created a pretty nice one-sheeter laying out the advantages, disadvantages, and design principles of running exclusive bus lanes in the center of a road vs. along the curb. As the Portland region considers BRT for future rapid transit lines (Powell/Division, Clackamas to Washington Square, and the SW Corridor are all…
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Boston as a Cautionary Tale for the CRC
Via Planetizen: The Boston Globe reports that the state end of the “Big Dig” project came in at over $7B and interest costs will push that over $10B: “It is extremely important that we understand the effect that the Big Dig debt service has on overall transportation spending in Massachusetts,” said Representative David P. Linsky,…
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Not All Transit Apps are on the iPhone
Here’s one from Nokia, running on the Windows Phone platform. I’m quite intrigued by the UI.
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Apps to the Rescue?
Via Planetizen: I’ve written before that carpooling/ridesharing may be fundamentally a social networking problem. Now the New York Times is reporting on a bevy of apps trying to take on the problem from that direction.