Activating Plazas with Transit
Walker calls them "connection-activated civic squares", and the challenge as he sees it is the ability to activate the public space with people moving on and off transit while avoiding the potential...
View ArticleShould Car Pool Lanes Require Three-to-a-Car?
Walker cites former Washington State Secretary of Transportation Douglas MacDonald on the beginnings of carpool lanes in Washington: Publication Date: Wed, 03/30/2011
View ArticleHow Far Will People Walk?
Jarrett Walker explains why it is so hard to determine how far people are willing to walk, and the common problem of measuring these distances by drawing a circle around a transit stop: Publication...
View ArticleWhy Honolulu Tops Best Transit List
The Brookings report, presented in The Atlantic, ostensibly focused on how well a transit system connected people to their jobs.Publication Date: Fri, 05/20/2011
View ArticleWhen Funicular Isn't Just A Funny Word
The Wellington Cable Car meets Walker's 4 requirements: "...it's a straight line, running at high frequency, through high density, where competitors are at a disadvantage."So what is a funicular,...
View ArticleWhy Can't Urban Designers and Transit Planners Just Get Along?
Publication Date: Tue, 09/11/2012
View ArticleMore Transit for the Same Cost? Auckland Plan Shows How
Publication Date: Wed, 10/10/2012
View ArticleShould We Slow Down Our Pursuit of Rapid Transit?
Walker inserts himself into the Broadway rapid transit debate in Vancouver to prove a point about the value of slow versus rapid transit.Publication Date: Wed, 04/21/2010
View ArticleSipping from the Tea Party Cup: A Call for an Urbanist Revolt
At last week's Citylab conference, a gathering of some of the world's leading urban thinkers, Walker heard an unexpected refrain: "A full-throated demand, from several surPublication Date: Mon, 10/14/2013
View ArticleStudy: Portland Citizens Want Transportation Safety Investments
Jarrett Walker shares the results of the poll, which was conducted by DHM Research for the Portland Bureau of Transportation.Among Walker’s observations of the poll results:Publication Date: Tue,...
View ArticleHow Important is High Frequency Transit Service?
“The reputation of Portland as a transit city in the last two decades may have been about its light rail, streetcar, or aerial tram, but to the extent that the city achieved significant ridership and...
View ArticleUpdated Transit Network for Columbus Available for Public Comment
Walker explains that as with the the recently proposed update to the Houston bus transit plan, the core idea for Columbus "is to expand the Frequent Network -- the network of services that run every 15...
View ArticleExplaining the Limitations of Travel Time Comparisons
Walker finds reasons to fault the "decisive" conclusion of a travel time "race" conducted by Boston Magazine.Publication Date: Mon, 06/30/2014
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Sating Food Deserts with Frequent Transit Networks
Focusing on the case of food deserts in Houston, Texas, Walker outlines in his blog Human Transit how Houston METRO's System Reimagining will alleviate many people from poor access to healthy food...
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Great Debate: Transit Ridership vs Transit Coverage
Jarrett Walker calls attention to a "great debate" regarding transit, which, unlike so many debates on transportation, involves some excellent questions about cities and mobility: "how to balance the...
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BRT Planned for the Silicon Valley
El Camino Real was the road originally used by Spanish missionaries as they founded missions throughout California. Now, that road is the focus of the latest BRT project in the Silicon Valley, destined...
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Report: Bus Rapid Transit Up 383 Percent in Ten Years
According to the study released by ITDP in November, "[bus] rapid transit has grown by 383 percent in the last ten year…" To drill down that data to a more local level: "While growth has been strongest...
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An Aerial Photography Tool for Planners
According to Jarrett Walker, "when it comes down to questions of rights-and-lefts, at the lowest level of planning altitude, one source of information is critical: aerial photography." Publication...
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Houston Approves Transit System Reimagining Plan
Jarrett Walker's post on the Human Transit blog includes some perspective on the scale of the undertaking by Houston in approving the System Reimagining Plan: "In the history of transit in North...
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