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Rei Saito
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Rei Saito writes Love Transit, a personal blog at lovetransit.substack.com. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers share this Substack on public transit, which moves between Japan, Sweden and wider Europe. One commenter calls it wonderful, while another disputes its examples of capital cities.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A newsletter for all you public transit lovers out there!
Most-linked posts?
- /p/most-profitable-public-transportation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-20
What Hacker News says?
Shameless plug for my friends substack all about public transit: https://lovetransit.substack.com It’s wonderful and bounces back and forth between japan, sweden, and greater europe
Comment linking /
on “Europe is investing heavily in trains”I think that's a misleading statement: - Prior to the pandemic, BART got >60% of its operating costs from riders (p9 in your linked doc) - Ridership is still way down relative to 2019 even though costs are up in absolute terms - Even from 2020 data, BART was hitting 50% https://lovetransit.substack.com/p/most-profitable-public-tr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio#United_... The subsidy in BART…
Comment linking /p/most-profitable-public-transportation
on “A computer upgrade shut down BART”And again, as examples you provide two capital cities of two richest countries in the world - capital cities are rich, can easily afford building public infra and also population density is big enough to make public transportation almost profitable - but not everybody lives in a capital city. https://lovetransit.substack.com/p/most-profitable-public-tr...
Comment linking /p/most-profitable-public-transportation
on “People hate the idea of car-free cities until they live in one”