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For me, hearing Jarrett’s perspective of technological agnosticism resonated strongly with me. Each transit technology comes with various tradeoffs that can som
by peatmoss 8y ago
For me, hearing Jarrett’s perspective of technological agnosticism resonated strongly with me. Each transit technology comes with various tradeoffs that can sometimes be unbundled and sometimes cannot.
It’s hard for people to understand how good busses can be unless you’ve seen a system of the sort Jarrett would hold up as an example.
This is one of a handful of books that I like to recommend to erstwhile transportation geeks along with Vanderbilt’s, Downs’s, and Shoup’s. Disclosure: I had a minuscule role in helping review an early draft of Jarrett’s book.
- wool_gather 8y agoCould you share the titles of those other books? Searching for a "Vanderbilt transit book" only brings up pages of commuting advice from Vanderbilt University.
- peatmoss 8y agoSure, sorry about that. To be clear these are mass-market books that I recommend to people wanting to get a deeper, but still high level understanding of transportation systems. Tom Vanderbilt - Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do Anthony Downs - Stuck in Traffic (and the follow-up, Still Stuck in Traffic) Donald Shoup - The High Cost of Free Parking And of course Jarrett Walker's Human Transit :-) EDIT: The rationale is that all of these engagingly explain something interesting that isn't necessarily intuitive or apparent to regular everyday users of the transportation system.
- wool_gather 8y agoAwesome, thank you for the recommendations!