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Christof Spieler@christofspieler.bsky.social

My favorite graphics in "Transportation and the Shape of Cities" #6: A typical transit route gets its ridership from lots of shorter trips that overlap each other, not from end-to-end trips. The more destinations along the way, the more of those trips it can serve, and the higher ridership is.

Peter Orlowicz@peterorlowicz.bsky.social

Fun Friday thought experiment: I'm not actually doing this, but hypothetically if you were putting together a syllabus for a Law of Railroads seminar, what would you want to include?