Progress and Public Transit: Density by Design

How many people should live over a station? As many as possible

This series is about what ‘progress’ might mean for public transit. 

We began by exploring the Endless Emergency, the permanent crisis in North American public transit. Briefly, the Endless Emergency stems from the fact that 

1. Transit operators’ dependence on external subsidy creates a raft of perverse incentives

2. These incentives encourage a bad local equil…