{"id":38,"date":"2026-09-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/2026\/09\/30\/%eb%8c%80%ec%a4%91%ea%b5%90%ed%86%b5%ec%97%90-%eb%b3%b4%eb%82%b4%eb%8a%94-%ec%97%b0%ec%84%9c\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:00:00","slug":"%eb%8c%80%ec%a4%91%ea%b5%90%ed%86%b5%ec%97%90-%eb%b3%b4%eb%82%b4%eb%8a%94-%ec%97%b0%ec%84%9c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/38\/","title":{"rendered":"A Love Letter to Public Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"article-dek wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know the bus beats driving?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my earliest memories is riding the city bus with my mom before I even started kindergarten. We called it an &#8220;\u201cadventure.\u201d&#8221;Looking back, we were probably just headed to the grocery store or the neighborhood library, but the street sliding past the window always felt new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time to watch the window<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we drive, we look only ahead: at signals, lanes, and the brake lights in front of us. On a bus or tram, we can finally look sideways. A new bakery, street trees that change with the seasons, people sharing umbrellas at the stop. Public transit is the cheapest way to see a city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to ride together<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public transit is also practice in sharing a space with strangers. Giving up a seat, wearing your bag in front, letting people off before you board: small rules like these add up to a city\u2019s manners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A good city is one where the rich ride the bus.<\/p>\n<cite>A city planner\u2019s remark<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A commute long enough to finish a book<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plans with no parking worries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Daily steps that grow with every walk to the stop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The faces of neighbors on your route<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, public transit can be inconvenient. Waits between buses are long, and the morning subway is suffocating. But the way to fix that is not for everyone to buy a car; it is for more people to ride and demand better routes. Today, grab your transit pass instead of your car keys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know the bus beats driving?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cities","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.generatemarket.net\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}