The Bus Is Still Best

A recent conference in which I attended presented a panel entitled "Microtransit: the fight against congestion". Microtransit: it seems that a genius has reduced public transportation in a laboratory, making it cute.

In some cases, reducing vehicles is a good idea. Cities do not have space for everyone's car. With shared electric scooters and improved access to bicycles, people find new ways to move around without taking up much more space than their body.

So it is true that even reducing transit may be a good idea, perhaps on small vehicles that come to your door upon request. But this is not the case. The best way to attract most people to a city efficiently and economically is not as sexy or high-tech: they are fixed route buses.

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