[jimkleiber]

It makes me think of how I've heard some universities will pave the paths that students had walked, vs creating the paved paths and hoping students walk on them [0]:

> The team at UNC went back into the archive for us and found some plans from the 60s and 70s, when they were really expanding the campus. An archivist discovered one of the written goals for planners was to "build paths where students were going rather than building some sort of grid system."

I believe micro-transit could play a similar role, basically helping the planners even figure out which routes people want to take before they turn them into fully funded routes.

[0]: https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/desired-paths-...