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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Good Ideas from Abroad
Author : Christof Spieler
Published in: Trains, Buses, People
Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
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Abstract
US transit has taken many ideas from overseas, but it still suffers from a “not-invented-here” mindset. Pushed on New York’s high construction costs in 2017, the MTA chair explained that New York has “unique challenges” like high ridership, old infrastructure, historic buildings, and density. Transit agencies in London, Paris, and Tokyo, which have built far more new transit in recent decades than New York, probably find those challenges familiar. The world has some great transit systems and there are many good ideas that US systems could implement.