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Rail × bus

The Feeder

which stations are walked to, and which are bussed to

The rail record sees stations. The bus record sees stops. Neither can see the thing between them — that some stations are the end of a bus ride and others are the end of a walk, and that this is most of what separates a centre from a suburb.

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The finding

Every scored station

Warm is bus-fed, cool is walked to. Size is morning rail boardings, so the large circles are the places people actually leave from.

bus-fed — ratio above the median walked to — below it unscored stations are not drawn

Reached by bus

Reached on foot

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