Bus conference and blogging

Transit rider demographics, Washington DC region. Post graphic.

Today I am at the regional bus conference (see this entry from the Commuter Page blog for the agenda, Conference Gives Buses Needed Emphasis) so I won't be blogging.

But there're plenty of transit posts from the archive...

In March 2005, for a bit I started a "Dr. Transit" subtheme, to counter what I thought of as the overweening automobile bias of the Post's Dr. Gridlock column. I dropped the guise after awhile (too much to write about not enough time) although it lives on in the right sidebar in the listing of transit-related links. Here are the first three Dr. Transit entries:

-- The Doctor is Out -- Dr. Gridlock and the Washington Post
-- Dr. Transit is In and Says "Ride a Bike"
-- Dr. Transit is In: More about transit sparked by an article in the Washington Post

-- Update: The Six Reasons Why People Don't Ride Metro
This one is pretty important, about why transit conscious people may not ride Metro (it was written during a period of many out-of-service incidents on the subway system)

-- Making Transit Sexy
-- More on Metro and rethinking transit marketing
-- An interesting transit idea: volunteers
-- More on bus marketing in Pittsburgh
-- Better transit as a gentrifying force
-- Do transit system shortcuts doom transit success?
-- Agustin (and many others) have a hard time hopping on the bus
-- Bus shelters revisited
-- The first priority for Bus shelters ought to be marketing transit
-- Speaking of bus marketing part 2

-- my first blog entry on car sharing
-- and this blog entry, High Cost of Free* Parking Revisited and Car Sharing in DC, includes a revision of my thinking about assessing carsharing companies for using the spaces (at first I thought they should, now I don't)

-- a piece by Zach Schrag is referenced in this entry, How Metro Shapes DC

-- and my thinking on transit planning via the mobility shed, Relativistic thinking about mobility, which started with this entry The Purple Line and the "Mobility" Shed.

But I could spend all day listing past blog entries and I have to get ready...
Washington Post graphic.



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