Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

摘要

Imagine a boulevard for a moment in which generous walkways and shade-tolerant evergreen trees, along with a long snakelike vehicle lined with many doors, entice you to take public transit. The moment you doubt whether you can have such a physical design for the mass transit, you cease for ever to be able to do it. Jarrett Walker believes that a pedestrian accelerator transit is feasible. In Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives, he attempts to let audiences see that having a public transit-oriented city is not a dream. He not only has more than 20 years' experience as a public transit planning consultant, but he also has a fluent and eloquent writing style given his literature background. He does know the words and is well informed how to put them together. His writing style, in most cases, avoids transportation planning jargon to create a comprehensible article. Where is essential to provide technical terms, on the other hand, he employs the words masterly to the extent that the tremendous caution he takes with words and their meaning is palpable.