Strengthening Transit Through Community Partnerships
Some American cities, like New York, have world-leading transit systems: you can go most places without taking a car. Some places—like Arlington, Texas—you really have to take a car: there's barely any transit at all.
Among cities of 100,000-plus people, New York and Arlington represent two poles in the urban universe: the best and worst cities for transit, according to a new tool from the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) and TransitCenter, two non-profits. AllTransit maps 15,000 routes and 543,000 transit stops nationwide, and ranks cities by their performance across three metrics: availability and frequency of service, and how much the service is used.