by David | Mar 16, 2015 | photo
I was reading an article called A Germaphobe’s Guide to Buying a MetroCard, which actually turned out to be a lot more about usability than germs, but it inspired me to think about how one might ride the MBTA with a minimum of infection opportunities. As the...
by David | Oct 1, 2014 | economics, transportation, urbanism
Usually on the first (business) day of any given month, there’s a terrible line at the charlie card machine. I guess many people don’t know you can buy next month’s T pass about halfway through the current month. But I’m not here to shame...
by David | Aug 5, 2014 | transportation, urbanism
It’s hard to impose order on systems that grow organically, like world-class cities. It’s also hard to create a coherent public transit system in an imperfect society. That said, there are three seemingly small gaps in the Boston public transit system that...
by David | Jul 29, 2014 | design, urbanism
How long does it take to go from one of Boston’s newest hip neighborhoods, the Innovation District, to one of Somerville’s even newer, actually not quite finished, ones, Assembly Row by public transit? During evening rush hour on a weekday, this trip of...
by David | Jul 28, 2014 | technology, transportation
Well, not exactly, but in the old saying about man bites dog being news, last Friday the estimable RunKeeper team put on a PR stunt / stupid human trick / arch critique of Boston public transit in which some guys raced a Green line trolley for four miles or so....