Greenwich Village in these years was a place for people in transit, looking to make their mark on American culture.
Instead of opening up Google Maps, typing in a destination and then demanding a route before you can get to the nearby times for your preferred route, Transit looked to streamline that process as much as possible.
Tokyo Transit Looks Like Light Art in This 3D Visualizer.
Elsewhere, hacker artist Evan Roth even created a physical representation of what four months of internet cache (that which is data mine in transit) looks like.
"We have a tendency to make a transit system look the way we think it should look rather than what the community needs and what they want," Karker said.
As a lover of cities and urban transit, I look forward to my next visit.
But he said that a bridge without mass transit would look back to the 1950s instead of to the future.
Older travelers know how to get discounts in the United States: flash that AARP card, register for a reduced-fare transit card, look for posted signs.
In determining which architectural proposal to accept for a station, transit officials look at things like how the competing plans would enlarge or move corridors and stairways, how they would improve sight lines from the token booth for greater security and how the decorative work would fit the community's history or activities, Mr. Nagaraja, the transit official, said.
The R32 was the train of the future, offering a vision of what mass transit would look like in fifty years — literally, as it happens, because, against all odds, roughly two hundred of the original R32s still operate on New York City's C, J, and Z lines.
