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I would love to see more of this mindset - bring something new and unique in to the world, instead of mass produced, least price per unit mentality, like how car colors are trending towards black and white.
Having something as mundane as a transit pass be designed so beautifully installs a sense of civic pride. Plus, it employs artists. Both of these things are important for a community. Transit passes may have been phased out in a lot of places, but there are lots of opportunities for a city to design and display public art.
> Milwaukee claims to be the inventor of the weekly transit pass … so, really? In the 20th century? I’m _almost_ certain that the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (1834) did season tickets; remember seeing one once. Even if not that, surely some one did in the century between the invention of commuter rail and the Milwaukee one? (The Dublin and Kingstown railway, allegedly the first commuter railway in the world, is inte…
> I’m _almost_ certain that the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (1834) did season tickets Season and weekly are different things (obviously). If you narrow your claim down enough, of course you can be the first (patents or Guinness book of world records being prome examples.) But the article isn't about that, it's about the design of the tickets. And they are a thing of beauty.
What is this separation of weekly?
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Not for transit please. This kind of thing is illegible (not to mention inaccessible) for visitors. Someone comes to your city and they want to ride a train instead of driving their rental car into your downtown. Your transit requires a card. They're not comfortable with your language, they have to find a machine, and the first one doesn't work right. They finally get a machine that works, after standing in line behi…
This reads like a nervous breakdown at the thought of having to buy a ticket from A to B. It’s really not that complicated in most countries with functional public transport.
They are not wrong, just look at Germany before the Deutschlandticket, but that one is useless for tourists so they still are stuck in the Holy Roman Empire of Public Transport Systems [1].
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Karte_de...
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Some things should be a utility. Nice is important but transit should fade into the background while you live life. Don't make them ugly but utility needs to be first.
Well, some people spend a significant amount of their time on transit. Of course, utility should come first, but I also would totally support trying to make them look nice (even if most people wouldn't notice nowadays because they stare at their phones the whole time).
I want to get places and the money spent on beautiful means despite being a rich country the us cannot afford great transit.
