I'm going to piss someone off but I don't care. Some of you on Transit Twitter are way too concerned about technical stuff that you completely miss the human element of transit. The lived experience of most transit users is not well represented in this space.
@jahorne We would add the there's often great excitement for an incremental technological improvement in urban transit and not enough concern for the growing mobility gaps across the rest of the continent.
@jahorne I think a lot of transit advocates want to skip the lived experience issue because it is tinged with class-cultural-racial issues that are thorny. #1 complaint in my world is: offensive and anti-social behavior on buses and metro.
@jahorne The only lived experience that matters is how long door to door
@jahorne Maybe transit folks could read the mobilities literature in sociology/social geography for a broad theoretical grasp of mobility/motility as a central axis of inequality?
@jahorne Well-lit bus stops and frequent enough service that you're not scared you'll be standing around for half an hour by yourself in the dark.
@jahorne Agreed. The average transit rider isn’t active on transit Twitter. Here we have a lot of smart/technical/passionate people who have time for Twitter. But not a lot of the people that transit agencies and municipalities don’t talk/listen to enough.