Move slow and fix things

If free why not free shaped?

a man in a hat and trench coat is saying it is my business to know Alt: Inspector Clouseau says "it's my business to know"

This applies to:

- Everything is free
- Only some things are free

Just tell us what's free.
Right up front.
No detective work necessary.

a man is standing in an office with his hands on his head and screaming . Alt: Chris Farley pulling out his hair, saying "I'M FINE"

If you run free transit, tell people on your website.

Like right up front. First thing you see.

DON'T HIDE THIS INFORMATION.

If you have a PDF of a brochure, put clickable URLs in it. QR codes may not be clickable.

If your city runs free transit, OPEN WITH THAT INFORMATION.

Don't hide it three pages in.

Dear transit agencies of the world, please include on your home page:

- What kind of transit you have
- What (if anything) each of them costs

Visitors laden with luggage don't have the time or patience to pore over 20 pages and as many PDFs.

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Coffee and a bowl of creamers on a table in the Amtrak dining car, looking out on somewhere in Indiana.

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Bus has a stop closer to my destination. No running through the middle of intersections today!

Really trying to not take a car, but Lyft prices:

$15 for one unwalkable mile from the bus stop to my destination.
$17 from where I currently am ten miles away.

Apple Maps screenshot, walking directions show meandering through an intersection as part of a 31 minute route.

Apple Maps found me a slightly less busy intersection to do... this... in.

Both the Apple and Google directions send me walking in areas with no sidewalks. I fear I may Uber the last mile.

Google Maps walking directions shows a route making several turns in the middle of a wide, complex intersection.

Just skedaddle all over this intersection.

Screenshot of Google Maps walking directions. 21 minutes, 0.9 miles. Directions specify walking in the middle of a six lane road.

No sidewalk where I'm going, but Google Maps is undeterred.

More concourse maps would be amazing! Only saw that one, and think it was an overhead view of only one level.

I love that the airport route is 747.

FEEDBACK:
Our methodology is ever evolving, and there are definitely orgs we haven't covered yet. If you think something should be different, please don't hesitate to use the feedback form near the top of the page, or comment or send a DM.

BLUESKY STATS:
- 279 Bluesky accounts.
- 33 orgs added new Bluesky accounts.
- 14 orgs relocated their Bluesky accounts (mostly for custom domains).
- 28 newly-added orgs have Bluesky accounts.

WHAT YOU DON'T SEE:
- We're keeping an eye on an additional 118 orgs that didn't make the cut, or are dormant. Every year we check in on them.
- We removed 9 orgs from the public list this year.

TRENDS NOTICED:
- LOTS of new YouTube (125) and LinkedIn (85) accounts. We weren't tracking them all before, so maybe this was just catch-up.
- 59 new TikTok accounts
- 51 more Twitter/X accounts gone dormant in the past year.

NOTES:
- We track all social accounts, even dormant ones.
- Mostly organizations. Currently working on methodology for whether to include/exclude/spin-off media or blog sites.

Urbanism & Transit Resources Welcome to the Urbanism and Transit Resources directory!

Transit and Urbanism Directory:
2026 UPDATE IS LIVE!

418 Organizations
- 45 orgs added
- 577 social links added
- 33 social links relocated

Have a look!

www.howdoyou.guide/orglist

Getting Around: Philadelphia, PA Traveled multiple times since 2014; most recent February 2026

Philly has come a LONG way since my first visit over 10 years ago. Payment and navigation are SO MUCH easier now.

Well done, @septaphilly.bsky.social!

howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

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We love a good guide!
Thanks @wired.com!

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Having traveled around the US quite a bit the past few years, we've seen a lot of this in person. Pretty much every city has at least *something* that looks like a recent improvement.

Ok

Annual refresh of our Transit & Urbanism Directory is under way! We're checking all the links.

About 400 orgs. 60 checked so far. We found...
- 33 new socials (incl. 10 Bluesky)
- 6 relocated socials
- 2 orgs newly active
- 3 orgs newly dormant

www.howdoyou.guide/orglist

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