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
Transit operators’ dependence on external subsidy creates a raft of perverse incentives
These incentives encourage a bad local equil…
