NY Times: MTA Ponders Transit for a New Generation

(NYT) They travel at odd hours. They disdain cars. They are “really adept” with technology.

And they are, according to a presentation by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday, the answer to the riddle of how to invest in transportation for the coming decades.

“We call them the millennials,” William Wheeler, the authority’s director of special project development and planning, told the agency’s finance committee. “They are embracing transit. But they have certain demands.”

As part of an overview on transit strategies for the next 20 years, officials at the authority constructed a detailed profile of the millennial — broadly defined as a traveler born after 1980 (though the authority hardly invented the term). The meeting included a fact sheet on the habits and sensibilities of millennials, like a guidebook for visitors to an unfamiliar land. ........................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/nyregion/mta-ponders-transit-for-a-new-generation.html?_r=1&