Jarrett Walker

Public transit planning and policy consultant ( author of the book and blog Human Transit. Also literature and plants.

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

@stevebartin @aaron_renn Nice that there's no conflict then.

[Benjamin Passino MURP @mtnpassiknow]

Great read.

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@EricEatsPickles @removaltine That's not a picture of a city. That's a picture of a suburb.

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

When lots of people want to be in the same place at the same time, what you have is a city.

And without so many cars, there’s no reason a city can’t coexist with nature.

[Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️ @SukritGanesh]

Unpopular opinion: Yosemite Valley needs thousands of new hotel rooms. And before you claim it'll destroy the environment: they can be dense multistory buildings replacing parking lots & existing single-story facilities, centrally located hotels will reduce car traffic massively.

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@stevebartin @aaron_renn Excellent! Target is here.

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If you haven't read @PeterNorton12 you are not ready for the debate about driverless cars in cities. https://t.co/J2VSmNnTXv @AndrewMillerYYZ

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@paul_jkrause When the gods are intervening all the time, humans don't really get the credit.

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@tega_ebi The best book I have is fully depreciated.

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@PAHoyeck And the Germans won't tell you who's giving him to you.

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@stevebartin @aaron_renn We love not having Walmart, thanks!

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It's easy to sell electric buses to people seeing them from the outside. It's harder to sell them to customers whose service is being cut to pay for them, or whose bus didn't come because electric buses are so unreliable.

Please tell me happier stories. 2/2 @AirResources

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Is any transit in the US having a great experience with battery electric buses? I'm looking for cases where they've been implemented without degrading service or diverting funds needed for service, and where they've proven to be reliable. 1/

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@pensandpoison I don't feel informed by most contemporary fiction. A lot of of it seems to be pandering to my Imagined ignorance.

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Meanwhile, in Rennes, France, the automated metro frequency is being upgraded from 80 seconds to 60 seconds. https://t.co/zp7tJVHruk

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@JoshPhillipsPhD Doesn’t seem to be a problem in France. You can only use a personal affair as blackmail if the voters care.

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

“I'm just amazed at how good your public transit is. The buses are everywhere. The city is so walkable. You have one of the cleanest downtowns in America. This downtown is as incredible as any place in the world.”

- 60-year old Dallas resident visiting Seattle for World Cup

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

@AuthorGFAllen Harry Potter

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

"We have not had a free market in American housing or transportation for at least seventy years. What we have had, instead, is the most ambitious land-use experiment in human history: a continent-scale effort to make one specific lifestyle mandatory."

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

@gorgepulse That's why I'm fighting for a better public transit.

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

The 'capitalism vs socialism' war is a waste of human effort and a perversion of human aspirations. Both capitalism and socialism are *tools* that have uses in a successful society, but almost nobody wants to live at the extreme of either one. Don't make tools into gods!