The Language of Transit

Today I'm in Portland, Maine, for the Build Maine conference (follow the conversation on Twitter at #buildmaine) with my friends Mike Lydon and John Anderson. Driving and flying from Hays, Kansas to Lewiston meant I did not get anything written for today, but fortunately CNU has started publishing videos from Dallas. Here is one of the sessions I made, specifically to hear Jarrett Walker. Enjoy.

In "the Language of Transit", Jarrett Walker explores the binary structures that trap our thinking about transit, including "rail vs bus," "permanent vs flexible," "choice rider vs dependent rider". He argues that many of the apparent debates in transit arise from these binary structures that we bring to it, not the facts of transit itself.