Transportation
Watch 10 Years of Public Transit Ridership Growth in This Blobby, Pulsating Map
In this unusual visualization, America's steady user rise is shown as a sea of swollen red discoids.
While it may look like one of those nuclear blast-radius maps, with its array of alarming red blobs over major cities, this model carries a much less threatening, even heartening message: In the past decade, urban America has fallen in love with public transportation, with nearly universal ridership increases on buses, light rail and other forms of shared transit.