@peregrine @number6 Also, hot take, we need to make transit free-to-use.
You don't change people's habits by making one thing harder, you make the other thing easier.
The need to pay for transit, as well as the need to figure out how to use it or get a ticket/pass/whatever are significant barriers to trying it. It is viewed too often as a last-resort in the US, and we need to change that.
@TechConnectify @peregrine @number6
I'd expect that ability to use transit without preplanning (due to well planned transfers and dense enough timetables) trumps it being free as a strategy for increasing utilization (and making it the standard way of getting around). I don't really have good evidence for it: the anecdotes I have are very different (free public transit in smallish touristy towns in the mountains vs. transit that you rarely need to care about the schedule of in large cities) and I don't know much about how these things changed over time.
Do you have any suggestion where/how to look for evidence on this question?
@robryk @TechConnectify @peregrine @number6 Look at places with buses only every multiple hours.
No worker nor student can rely on that for commute.