How do you take transit in a new place?
- How do you buy a ticket?
- Can you use an app?
- How do you find where the bus goes?
- How do you get on?
- Is this the same everywhere?
As part of HowDoYou Guide, we are researching the quirks of getting around without a car. This may eventually become a more formal guide, and we’ll start sharing our research as we go.
We start by looking at a city’s transit website. Then we actually visit the place and try using it. Sometimes something that sounds up easy ends up tricky; other times it’s easier than expected. Sometimes there are surprises that make a trip inconvenient or even impossible.
Our goal isn’t to describe everything about a city’s transit; it’s to show the essentials you need to ride it well enough. If you showed up and stepped off a plane or Amtrak, how do you get to your hotel?
Below are further recollections of trips before I started this research project. They’re likely to be less thorough and less helpful than the transit logs above.
Transit Memories
Transit Fails
Transit Fail: Utica, NY