YouTube user STLTransit has a wonderful collection of videos that visualize the movements of the public transit systems of various locations — turning public transit data into a flowing display of a city’s daily life. Each video shows the ebb and flow of traffic during a single day, with various transit systems like bus and rail shown in different colors. The result is a brief but exciting glimpse at our world — a satellite’s view of a city’s living protoplasm on the streets below.
Watch the beauty of public transit unfold in New York, Boston, and other cities around the world
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