The transportation planning app moovel (formerly known as Ridescout) has created a YouTube series called Transit Trends that brings "explainer posts" to a new format.
The YouTube channel for moovel (the app formerly known as RideScout) has launched a new YouTube series called Transit Trends, with five episodes already queued up.
The latest episode discusses "why the city planning of the past is the cause of our current transportation mess," calling on Gabe Klein, former Director of the D.C. Department of Transportation and Commissioner of Transportation of Chicago, as well as the author of Start-Up City, to provide his insight into the challenges facing planners working to resolve the disconnect between planning and transportation.
Klein sums up his position on the common ground between land use and transportation planning thusly: "When we talk about transit, we often get caught up in talking about moving people….What we're really doing is creating great places, when you connect land use to transit."
Jeff Wood, known to many by his Twitter handle of @TheOverheadWire, also contributes his expertise to the episode, especially with regard to the legacy of 20th century planning: sprawling patterns of urban development that have limited the reach of mass transit in many contemporary U.S. cities.
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