Move slow and fix things

If you run free transit, tell people on your website. Like right up front. First thing you see. DON'T HIDE THIS INFORMATION.

Dear transit agencies of the world, please include on your home page: - What kind of transit you have - What (if anything) each of them costs Visitors laden with luggage don't have the time or patience to pore over 20 pages and as many PDFs.

Bus has a stop closer to my destination. No running through the middle of intersections today!

Really trying to not take a car, but Lyft prices: $15 for one unwalkable mile from the bus stop to my destination. $17 from where I currently am ten miles away.

Apple Maps found me a slightly less busy intersection to do... this... in. Both the Apple and Google directions send me walking in areas with no sidewalks. I fear I may Uber the last mile.

No sidewalk where I'm going, but Google Maps is undeterred.

Transit and Urbanism Directory: 2026 UPDATE IS LIVE! 418 Organizations - 45 orgs added - 577 social links added - 33 social links relocated Have a look! www.howdoyou.guide/orglist

Philly has come a LONG way since my first visit over 10 years ago. Payment and navigation are SO MUCH easier now. Well done, @septaphilly.bsky.social! howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

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We love a good guide! Thanks @wired.com! www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Having traveled around the US quite a bit the past few years, we've seen a lot of this in person. Pretty much every city has at least *something* that looks like a recent improvement.

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Annual refresh of our Transit & Urbanism Directory is under way! We're checking all the links. About 400 orgs. 60 checked so far. We found... - 33 new socials (incl. 10 Bluesky) - 6 relocated socials - 2 orgs newly active - 3 orgs newly dormant www.howdoyou.guide/orglist

Having taken the bus when visiting Providence, this is just a massive self-own on the part of Rhode Island. Props to @pvdstreets.bsky.social for doing the good work and bringing receipts!

Welcome to the modern world, Orange County! Buses now have tap-to-pay and fare capping. The old app was a nightmare, this is a huge improvement! howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

We checked out the new LAX/Metro Transit Center. It's nice! Added some pics to our Getting Around LA page. howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Getting Around: SAN DIEGO, CA San Diego had surprisingly good transit! Good rail, good buses. The tap readers were hard to find sometimes, and a *little* more frequency would help. howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Sometimes you can just do the nice things. Thanks, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

There's an ease/preference gradient for ways to pay for transit, and it's probably gonna be different for everyone. Mine is: Tap > Phone Wallet > App > Transit Card > Ticket > Cash

LATE WEEKEND THOUGHT: A common approach to riding transit in a new place is to try to understand a city's system and paradigms... But successfully riding transit might be more about a robust set of TOOLS and SKILLS.

Sometimes we take transit somewhere and it's a headache. Then we go back and they made something work better. Props to Orange County, CA, on their new payment system, joining the ranks of DC and Philly as places that became easier for us to ride.

Today's "oh that's different!": You have to push a button to open the trolley doors in San Diego. Also props to the fare inspectors for an impromptu mini orientation.

Just tapped to pay for the bus in Orange County, CA. Long overdue, much appreciated! New app is better as well.

We went to Baltimore! It's really close to being a great transit system, but the devil was in the details. Really hard to catch sometimes. But great once on board. Lots of lessons learned! howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

We have stickers! Check out our sticker and guide bundles for your loved ones this holiday season. We have coffee and cocktail themes. They're fun and, dare we say, educational! shop.howdoyou.guide

"How Do You Avoid Hitting People with your Car" mini guide. Now in French! 🇫🇷

Getting Around: Albuquerque, NM We rode their Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) called ART. ✅ It was fast! ✅ It was free! ❌ It didn't come very often. howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Baltimore threw us some curve balls! Many lessons learned. Our transit guide still needs some work. Write-up coming shortly...

Planning to test our first prototype "How Do You Ride Transit in a New City" checklist soon. Destination: Baltimore!

Extremely Dishonorable Mention to this bike lane:

Getting Around: ORANGE COUNTY, CA Last week was LA, this week let's look at OC! ✅Buses are clean and fast ❌Buses come once every 40+ minutes ❌Most routes are East-West or North-South, so you'll probably need to transfer... and wait another 40+ minutes howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

We love curated things. You get insight. Context. Opinion. A refreshing change from the algorithmic and AI landscape. Currently updating our transit org list (hdy.guide/orglist) and listening to Iowa Public Radio. www.iowapublicradio.org/classical

Congratulations to our new transit-friendly mayor!

We rewatched Volcano, one of our favorite disaster flicks, recently. It holds up surprisingly well. Key to the story is the Red Line (now D) extension. This fictional extension was preparing to open... in 1997. Better late than never! www.imdb.com/title/tt0120...

And yes, we love you up in Toronto as well. Making plans for a visit next year. 🇨🇦

Would love to see this reformed. It's so arbitrary.

Go Dodgers! ⚾ We rode transit in LA. - Better than you'd think. Amazing if you're lucky. 🎰 - Frequency can be poor.⌚ - Difficult crossing county line. ❌ - TAP fixed the old nightmare of fares and transfers. 💳 howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

This is the kind of playful whimsy we happily pay 2.90 for.

Looking forward to this read! @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Playing around with an idea. Who can identify what this is a sketch of?

Congrats to Kansas City on their streetcar expansion! We rode it earlier this year. Free fares made it really easy and low-stress for an out-of-towner, and it took us from Amtrak right to our hotel (give or take a couple blocks)! howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

We walked through NYC's West Village on Halloween once. Closed to traffic. The feeling of safety was amazing. No threat of being maimed or killed if you carelessly wandered a few steps to the left.

Love a guide like this! It takes a lot of mental labor to keep rehashing the same explanations over and over. Read it, bookmark it, save yourself some sanity.

Getting Around: GROVER BEACH, CA Cute town. Gorgeous beach. App sent us on foot, along PCH, with no sidewalk. LESSON LEARNED: Take care to verify app directions. Read on for coyotes. howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Here's a nice guide on writing about crashes!

Poked around the city. Took some pics of our stickers.

New Guide just dropped! HOW DO YOU Step Onto the Subway - Let People Off First - Step All the Way In - Sit or Hold On Pre-order in the shop, or print at home for free: howdoyou.guide/mini-guides

A friendly request: Include which city you're referring to with your transit and urbanism takes, and at the start of articles. There's countless places that call things "Metro," and readers are tuning in from all over the world.