So here in Seattle, weekday ridership on Sound Transit and KC Metro is still at about 50% of 2019 levels, whereas our buddies north of the border in Vancouver are seeing TransLink reach about 85-90%. Granted that Canada has been posting record population growth thanks to high levels of immigration not currently seen in the US, and our agencies oriented our transit planning around the CBD and other job centers in a radial fashion. Do you think Vancouver's figures demonstrate that public transit can remain an essential and growing service in relatively car-dependent areas as long as it moves away from the radial model and serves a broader array of trip purposes?
I’d think that once the population of Vancouver is ~15% larger than now transit should match 2019 peaks. But its share is likely to drop if the CBD (and other office districts) continue to face wfh.
Hi David! I'm still taking the train and bus in Minneapolis, like a sucker. It is somewhat better than it was a year or two ago--they started putting cops back on the train--but still a night and day difference compared to a decade ago. It is very sad. Makes me wonder what I spent all that time in my 20s working towards. Whoops!
Maybe we should have been focusing lower on the Maslowian Hierarchy, working on law-and-order (i.e. reigning in the cops properly so they don't kill civilians and provoke riots and then stop working), instead of good urban form.
Both the domestic weakness and the international attitude of the US are essentially two aspects of one and the same modus operandi, and the need to reinvent itself must be recognised from within before major change happens (from within, as well - there's no other way.).
I don't think, however, that the world is necessarily heading towards WW3. A global dictatorship is more possible and better for businesses of the rich and powerful. (It may even be socialist!)
Even if I believed the global elites can control things, I don't believe the global elites could coordinate on a single dictator without a war intervening.
I am not saying WW3 is probable, just more probable than is generally acknowledged.
So here in Seattle, weekday ridership on Sound Transit and KC Metro is still at about 50% of 2019 levels, whereas our buddies north of the border in Vancouver are seeing TransLink reach about 85-90%. Granted that Canada has been posting record population growth thanks to high levels of immigration not currently seen in the US, and our agencies oriented our transit planning around the CBD and other job centers in a radial fashion. Do you think Vancouver's figures demonstrate that public transit can remain an essential and growing service in relatively car-dependent areas as long as it moves away from the radial model and serves a broader array of trip purposes?
I’d think that once the population of Vancouver is ~15% larger than now transit should match 2019 peaks. But its share is likely to drop if the CBD (and other office districts) continue to face wfh.
Hi David! I'm still taking the train and bus in Minneapolis, like a sucker. It is somewhat better than it was a year or two ago--they started putting cops back on the train--but still a night and day difference compared to a decade ago. It is very sad. Makes me wonder what I spent all that time in my 20s working towards. Whoops!
Hope you are doing well down under.
Maybe we should have been focusing lower on the Maslowian Hierarchy, working on law-and-order (i.e. reigning in the cops properly so they don't kill civilians and provoke riots and then stop working), instead of good urban form.
Both the domestic weakness and the international attitude of the US are essentially two aspects of one and the same modus operandi, and the need to reinvent itself must be recognised from within before major change happens (from within, as well - there's no other way.).
I don't think, however, that the world is necessarily heading towards WW3. A global dictatorship is more possible and better for businesses of the rich and powerful. (It may even be socialist!)
Even if I believed the global elites can control things, I don't believe the global elites could coordinate on a single dictator without a war intervening.
I am not saying WW3 is probable, just more probable than is generally acknowledged.