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Marco Chitti
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Marco Chitti writes Italian (urban) Letters, a personal blog at marcochitti.substack.com. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Getting bus priority right. Lessons from Bologna”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only HN comment disputes the post's case for letting riders design their own bus routes, as in Shanghai, arguing that well-funded agencies invest in fixed networks instead. Readers mostly use it as a point of debate.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Planning and Transit seen from an Italian living in North America.
Most-linked posts?
- Getting bus priority right. Lessons from Bologna2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-24
What Hacker News says?
There is a reason well funded transit agencies do not go into that direct, in fact, the are investing many billions going into the opposite direction. Are all these people just really stupid? That is not to say dynamic information about traffic can't help with things, but its very much an optimization, not the core of the system. The system you advocate sound really good in your head, because an unknown non-existing…
Comment linking /p/getting-bus-priority-right-lessons
on “Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes”Submitted Down with the BRT, long live the Bus as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build trams. But build them well as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting bus priority right. Lessons from Bologna as a story · 1 points
HN discussion