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The art of being nowhere on purpose, surrounded by strangers all pretending the same
means The act of moving people or goods from one place to another, especially by public systems like buses and trains.
from From Latin transitus, 'a going across,' from transire — trans ('across') plus ire ('to go'). The same ire that walks through 'exit,' 'ambition,' and 'itinerary.' It entered English in the 15th century meaning a passage or crossing, including the astronomical sense of a planet crossing the sun's face. The modern 'public transit' sense — the daily crossing of cities — is a later, largely American flowering of that ancient 'going across.'
- word origin
- From Latin transire, to go across
- venus transit
- Next planet crossing the sun arrives 2117
- transit deserts
- Vast areas where buses simply never go
- exoplanet hunting
- We find worlds by tiny stellar dimmings
- airport limbo
- Transit zones legally count as nowhere at all
mrt singapore — world's most expensive rapid transit system per km, opened 1987, serves 4.7 million daily riders
tokyo metro — busiest subway in the world with 3.2 billion annual passengers across 290 stations
london underground — oldest metro system in the world, opened 1863, still operates 11 lines across greater london
new york city subway — 24-hour system serving 5.7 million daily riders across 472 stations in 1968 network design