Transportation
Every City Should Have Something Like San Francisco's Mass Transit Access Map
It lets you see exactly how much of the city you can reach in a given time window.
Transportation planner Chris Pangilinan likes to think of a public transit agency as a manufacturer that sells a product, and that product is access. Not rides; sure, we can enjoy the physical act of traveling, but that's not our primary motivation when we swipe our fare cards. Access: getting to work, getting home, getting to the store, getting somewhere.
"We're not selling 10 seconds of travel time," says Pangilinan, who recently joined the New York City Transit Authority after five years at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. "What we're actually providing to the public is access to the city."