During six months of ride-alongs, engineers traveled to work with commuters, went on the road with salespeople and tagged along for family vacations to see how people used infotainment systems.
The federal government, which provides only about 17 percent of financing for transit systems, should be doing a lot more, particularly since nearly 60 percent of rides are related to work, with commuters from every income level.
Tradesmen buying drills and plasterboard for their day's work jostle with commuters picking up paint on the way to the office.
The narrow Novelty Hill Road, once a muddy, rutted logging road, now is clogged with commuters who work in Redmond or other cities but who recently moved to rural communities east of Redmond Ridge, like Duvall, Monroe and Carnation, where new subdivisions are replacing dairy farms.
This line is widely unknown to tourists and outsiders as it was built with commuters who work for the financial organisations in the City of London in mind, only has two stations (Waterloo and Bank) and can be hard to find on the Tube map.
Serco started out operating radars in Yorkshire and traffic lights in London, but it came to work with schoolchildren and doctors, commuters and prisoners, pilots and refugees.
The sun is shining, the street is crowded with commuters, tourists, working stiffs.
On Monday morning, protesters in thinning numbers continued to occupy roads and intersections, including at Admiralty, where the police urged the crowds to leave the roads, which are usually busy with commuters heading to work.
Officials believe the trains were packed with commuters heading to work.
A new survey released by ONS shows commuting do work does, in fact, impact well-being, with commuters feeling less happy and satisfied with their lives and more anxious than non-commuters.
I trekked into work with the rest of the commuters rocking snow boots, hoods and puffy coats.
