Article: The Many Flavors of Transit | Transportationist.

So the comments are off on the article and clicking the reblog button did … something (though I know not what) …  The Press This button at the bottom of the article failed too, but the one on my browser did not.

I get the point of the article – transit-oriented doesn’t just mean they have a good subway or a good bus system.  But the list I don’t get.  There are not 33 individual categories on the list!  Click above to the read the article and see the original list.

In fact, you could argue that there are only two categories of transit on the list here:  Scheduled and on-demand.  The first list below shows scheduled services and the second on-demand.  The third list is … I don’t know.  My guess is that some are scheduled and some are on-demand.

Without getting into the mode silos or trivia, there is little difference between PATH subways and MTA subways other than destination.  Likewise for the 3.5 commuter rail lines listed (and Amtrak) or the bus services.  Or the jitneys or the car services …

Two categories.  Not 33.

Scheduled

• MTA subways
• PATH subways
• MTA buses
• New Jersey Transit buses
• Metro-North Rail Road
• Long Island Rail Road
• New Jersey Transit trains
• Staten Island Ferry
• Staten Island Rail Road
• Commuter ferries (Five licensed operators)
• Chinatown buses (intercity)
• Low cost intercity buses (Bolt Bus, Mega Bus)
• Conventional intercity buses (Greyhound, Peter Pan)
• Company/corporate shuttles
• University shuttles (Columbia University, New York University)
• Roosevelt Island Tram (Gondola)
• Roosevelt Island Red Bus (Publicly owned development corporation)
• Amtrak

On-demand

• Water taxis
• Access-a-Ride (MTA and other transit provider contracts)
• Yellow taxicabs (Medallion cabs)
• Green taxicabs (Boro cabs)
• Liveries for Hire (Uber, Lyft, Carmel, etc.)
• Executive Limousines
• Liveries (informal)
• CitiBike bike share (public access for a fee)
• University bike share programs (free access for a designated group)

Could be either – no idea

• Apartment shuttles (CoSo, etc.)
• Commuter vans (licensed and pre-arranged fares; e.g. Mario’s Transportation)
• Dollar vans and local jitneys (informal immigrant services)
• New Jersey commuter jitneys
• Long Island commuter jitneys
• Executive helicopters