Can Analyzing Tweets Help Us Create Better Transit Routes? [INFOGRAPHIC]

We’re all used to seeing the nice, straight lines of transit maps, showing us where the buses and subways travel and when they stop. But how do people actually use these transit vehicles?

An intrepid graphic designer decided to answer this question by plotting tens of thousands of tweets around cities like New York, San Francisco and Chicago, and discovered that not all cities are actually providing transit where people are traveling.

Fast Company Design found these beautiful maps of the most-trafficked thoroughfares in major US cities, as visualized by Twitter use.

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