Jarrett Walker ✓
@humantransit
Public transit planning and policy consultant (https://t.co/ZoczdeljM9), author of the book and blog Human Transit. Also literature and plants.
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@humantransit The struggle for bus priority is waged month by month, year by year. You could argue it began around 1980 when Washington state got an early start on HOV lanes, setting an example for Seattle/King County to try on arterials in the late '00s.
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@MayorofSeattle But she wouldn't be able to do so much if the city bureaucracy wasn't already aligned around a commitment to transit (which is essential given their commitment to be a dense and walkable city). Thank the 2012 Seattle Transit Plan for that. 10/10
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Now, the @MayorofSeattle is a former transit advocate, Katie Wilson. So of course she's making some more aggressive choices to add bus lanes even where they will really inconvenience motorists. That's democracy. 9/
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Many mayors have come and gone in that time, with varying levels of political interest in transit. But the policy commitment has been constant, and the Seattle Transit plan is what put that commitment in place. 8/
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Ever since, Seattle has been rolling out very aggressive street redesigns, mostly around a set of quasi-BRT frequent bus axes called RapidRide. They are reallocating space to transit because it's their priority. 7/
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But everything is different if it is CITY policy telling the CITY traffic engineer to make things work for transit, because transit is the CITY's priority even if the City doesn't run it. That's the reset that the Seattle Transit Plan did. 6/
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How does the City staffer respond? Usually by treating the transit agency as just another user of the street asking them for something. It's too easy to say no. 5/
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Every day in America, a transit planner calls up a city traffic engineer asking for help with a problem. Could you remove this on-street parking space so we can make this turn? Can you help us move this bus stop from here to there? 5/
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The City needed to feel that it owned the transit system even if it legally didn't, so that it could plan dense redevelopment around the frequent lines in confidence that they would always be there. And fortunately, the county transit leaders saw the win-win. 4/
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Why? Because Seattle knew that their future depended on excellent transit. That meant they had to stop treating the county transit agency as just another "stakeholder" or "government partner". 3/
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In the early 2000s I was part of the design team for the Seattle Transit Plan. This was unprecedented. The City didn't control the transit system, the county did. But the City made its own transit plan anyway. 2/
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Visitors to Seattle are often amazed by the excellence of the bus system and especially the high quality of transit priority. Most people "have very little idea how this happened."
Well, here's how it happened. 1/
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12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views5 718this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %12.81%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.95%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
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| Median views per post | 5 718 | 924 | 6.19× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 12.81% | 3.62% | 3.54× |
| Engagement rate | 1.95% | 1.52% | 1.28× |
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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
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Reposts3.6%88 in total
Replies1.7%41 in total
Bookmarks9.9%245 in total
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