Throwing Our Car Culture Under the Bus

Dan Hendry has a simple but powerful model to transform public transportation and it starts with training youth. On-bus orientation and free passes has increased high school ridership from 28,000 to close to 600,000 annually in Kingston, Ontario. The underlying philosophy in the development of this project has been: with encouragement, mastery of transit tools, true life experience and a bus pass in hand students will gain independence and confidence. This confidence in themselves and their experience will facilitate students to use the bus now locally, and in the future, anywhere their lives might take them. Follow Dan on Twitter @SustainableDan