Calgary Public Transit II

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Re: Wooster's article on transit "design"

I couldn't agree more. Not on every point, but on the way transit authorities need to change their perspective. Not just on how people experience transit, but how and why they use it as well. No offence to engineers, because they do a really difficult job, but I feel that a lot of transit and transportation departments are dominated by engineers and have very few other specialists working to understand how to make the best system. However, I do think a lot of transit agencies are beginning to understand this and are looking at things a bit differently. The whole idea of transportation demand management is a step away from technical solutions and supply-focused transportation, which has dominated the field for too long. Don't get me wrong, I am not advocating eliminating engineers from the process, I just think their expertise needs to be supplemented by some other specialists.