Transit Fast

Purpose: To give inexperienced or stalled transit systems a template for success.

To cover...

  • Purpose & Culture
  • Procurement
  • Staffing
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Systems (general)

  • Service, service, service!!
  • Service gets ridership!
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Agency Staffing

Eat your own dogfood!

  • Hire your own people to the greatest extent possible.
  • Planners and engineers should also be experienced transit riders who care about the experience!!
  • Consultants tend to slow down projects, cause them to go over budget, and have misaligned financial incentives.
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TODO: Case study, BART's success with in-house engineering