Hello World
After mulling it over for quite some time, I am finally starting my own blog. The blog will be a technical blog (as opposed to personal) and will principally cover my thoughts on public transportation. However, focusing on public transportation alone would miss key aspects of the larger issues around mobility and the nature of cities that make public transit worthwhile in the first place. Thus, the blog will also include discussion on land use and transportation generally. In addition, a lot of posts will be spent looking into the not so distant future when automated vehicles become commonplace. The rise of vehicular automation over the next 15 to 25 years will have substantial implications for transportation and especially public transportation. This blog will explore some of these issues, which are shockingly absent from discussion on public transportation investments.
My next post will be a primer on public transportation, how it works and why it matters. The goal of the post is to provide a basis for conversation about more nuanced public transit issues. In other words to get everyone up to speed and on the same page. Subsequent posts will be less verbose and will by and large be independent of each other, such that they need not be read in a linear fashion. I hope to post content at least once a week on Monday mornings, but we will see how well those expectations are met.
Finally, I’d like to thank Jarrett Walker, Jeff Speck and Jane Jacobs, whose writings and ideas represent much of the foundation on which these ramblings will be built. Thanks for reading this and I hope you enjoy the blog.
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