Topic: Transit
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Why Losing Google Maps on the iPhone Is a Good Thing
Apple Maps is so flawed it's forcing users to discover even better, city-specific alternatives.
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Photos
The Most Elegant Transit Maps Ever
The Brooklyn couple behind Lineposters discuss their creative process and inspiration.
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Dear New York: Please Make Subway 'Grinding' a Felony. Now.
A recent ruling sets a precedent for transit sex abusers to roam free.
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Making Sense of Inevitable Transit Delays
Researchers are using rider data to better understand how stressed subway crowds flow through the system.
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Maps
Are Our Transit Maps Tricking Us?
Subway maps distort the reality on the ground for all kinds of reasons. What happens when we make decisions based on them?
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In Los Angeles, Ideas for a Quieter Wait for Mass Transit
A UCLA researcher makes the case for several ways to cut noise at transit stations in the middle of freeways.
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Can Light Rail Carry a City's Transit System?
It can if it's built right, as in Portland or San Diego, and new research explains why.
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Charts
Visualizing the New York Subway System's 'Data Exhaust'
What do 1.6 billion mass transit trips through the city look like?
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Photos
New York's Lovely Abandoned Subway Station
Photographs of the phantom City Hall station capture transit charm of yore.
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An Experiment Worth Watching: All-Door Bus Boarding in San Francisco
Allowing bus riders to board in the rear as well as the front is common outside the U.S., but few American transit agencies have been willing to try it.
