Human Transit with Jarrett Walker

Jarrett Walker's career has been dedicated to improving the quality of public transit in the United States and beyond. A specialist in bus network design, he has led transit planning projects around North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand for decades. He is also the author of the book Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives. It's a classic in the field, and a revised edition came out from Island Press last year. We talked with him about why buses should get more love and how transit advocates can fight for their systems in a hostile funding environment. Plus, should we even be thinking about making buses free? Or is making them fast and frequent more important?

Find out more about Jarrett Walker and his work.

Buy his book, Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives, at our official Bookshop.org page.

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