It’s 100% believable that texting is more dangerous than driving drunk. At least when you’re driving drunk you are *technically* focusing on one thing.

Jarrett Walker has an interesting article here on “Why Circulators (Often) Don’t Work”.

It makes for an interesting read. The comment section is generally well-informed too.

Excerpts from this article:

“People get on a bus because it takes them to (or at least toward) where they’re going. The shorter a route is, the fewer places it goes, and thus the fewer people will tend to get on it. Very short routes, say under 3 mi, tend to do very poorly unless they’re the sole means of reaching a major destination (such a shuttle between a major hospital and a nearby rail station.)”

“If a neighborhood is served only with a circulator, this also puts the area one connection further away from most destinations.”

“Further out in the suburbs, it’s entirely reasonable to force transfers to rail to reach downtown, because the cost of running buses parallel to light rail goes up as you get further out along the line. Even there, though, good design tries to provide these connections with fairly long bus routes that connect many suburban destinations to each other, to expand the range of places that people can reach with zero connections or one connection.”

“Localized interests (such as developers, community groups, and small city governments) tend to invent short routes — “circulators” or “shuttles” — because they are thinking about their particular transport problem in isolation. Successful transit agencies, though, are always looking for how to serve these localized needs using longer routes that do many other things. It’s by combining markets, not by serving them separately, that successful transit corridors are made.”

Start writing those tickets. Just having the law on the books doesn’t seem to be dissuading anyone.