Human Transit

Does the region still care about TriMet and ensuring a strong public transit system, asks public transit design and policy consultant Jarrett Walker. While leaders face many competing priorities, the TriMet crisis needs attention now.

Putting a route near every community sounds fair until the buses only arrive once an hour. Jarrett Walker, author of Human Transit and principal of the firm helping Des Moines rethink its bus network, explains why cities cannot maximize frequency, coverag

We'll hear thoughts on the current challenges and opportunities ahead for modes of transportation such as buses, light rail and more.

I enjoy Europe as much as the next urbanist, but years of living and traveling there never uprooted one of my most unpopular opinions: Streets numbered in sequential order are a wonderful thing for the cities that have them. I was recently in Bogotá, Colo

From Canada's bus abundance to tech-bro transit fantasies, Jarrett Walker dismantles the myths and shows what an effective system really looks like.

Talking Headways hosts Jarrett Walker on the release of therevised editionof his influential book Human Transit.

… by thinking about people you know who are driving for Uber or doing poorly paid jobs they hate, and asking if they'd have better lives as bus or train operators. I'm serious. In the US, public transit is in grave trouble due to lack of staff. Here's how

This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn welcomes back a special return guest: Jarrett Walker, head of Jarrett Walker + Associates, a transit-planning firm based in Portland, Oregon. Walker has been a consultant in public transit network,

Should proposed public transit infrastructure in the US be judged on whether it helps people go places so that they can do things? The US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is asking this question right now. FTA helps fund most major transit constructio