They are the most antiquated trolleys in the US. You pull a cord to request a stop even underground. Services run every 20 minutes+ are purposefully bunched on Sundays so the combined core has 15+ minute service gaps. Drivers have to open their window and flip a physical switch where the 10 diverges

San Juan, PR is front-door only boarding on the buses. Richmond, VA is all-door boarding for BRT and standard buses.

Philadelphia I’d change to being single door, with exceptions for trams (apart from at 13th, 15th, 30th, and 19th/22nd WB where all-door boarding is permitted) as the whole G line and the surface T lines are front-door boarding only

I remember finally seeing this map in public after years of the agency lacking any accessible official map (or a working public website), so satisfying!

Thank you!

I am writing an article covering suburban alleys and their potential future as shared streets, could I use this photo as an example of how design changes make narrow rights-of-way make for safer active transport conditions attributing credit to you?

Many are used on local bus routes, particularly in Brazil and Chile but elsewhere too. They’re not very efficient but with our abysmal fare evasion rates and impending fiscal cliffs for large orgs some sort of WMATA-style opening gate may be worthwhile to study