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Huh?: “The Many Flavors of Transit”

2014-11-01 plaws

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

Montréal Cargo Bikes

2014-06-29 plaws

Classic dépanneur delivery bike in Montreal

Story: Copenhagenize.com – Bicycle Culture by Design: Montreal Cargo Bikes.

I lived in the ‘burbs, so there were no dépanneurs like these where I was, believe me. But in the inner-ring suburbs and in residential areas of the city, they were legion. And this is how the groceries got to your house.

From googling around, it appears that many of these have been bought out by Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. Who is that? Just the same Montreal company that owns Circle K among others (mostly in Canada but growing).