every bus should come every five minutes and every bus driver should make a million dollars an hour
The book I plugged before, Walkable City, said that a successful public transportation system should run at least every ten minutes. If people have to wait more than ten minutes for whatever they’re waiting for (bus, subway, etc.), then they’re more likely to decide to just drive to their destination. This is obviously more true for places with an entrenched driving culture, but anyway, the book said that almost no municipality wanting to start up a public transportation system wanted to pay to have it run every ten minutes, because that would mean having more buses/trains and hiring more drivers. So, instead, most of them decided that a 15-20 minute wait was their goal. And then, when the public transit system failed, the municipality would be like, “See?! People just won’t use public transportation! :-(” And part of the book’s argument was, well, they are indeed much less likely to use *bad* public transportation, yes.
(via democraticsenator)
Me on my deathbed: “i wish i spent more time on tumblr.com”
“Your experiences are not universal” from kimmy schmidt and “I DONT FEEL THAT WAY!” from bob’s burgers are the twin lines from tv sit coms i invoke on a regular basis whenever someone is obtusely denying the richness and diversity of human perspectives
I finally finished my third crochet project! This design was a struggle, but I’m glad I stuck with it. I definitely learned a lot! by UncleGael