[chad_oliver]

This was written by Alon Levy, who is deep in the weeds of transport infrastructure and was writing for a technical audience. The habitual readers of their blog will easily interpret this as "Why commuters prefer transfers at the origin rather than transfers at the destination". This is the same conclusion that will be reached by readers who have never read Alon's blog before but do in fact read the first sentence of the post.

Clearly, Alon's title uses wonkish terminology and would have benefited from a title that was more easily understood by people unfamiliar with the field. I think it's fair to say that you're not the target audience.

[lolpython]

I read Alton‘a blog all the time and just didn’t understand the linked blog post at all. I think it was just poorly written.

[magic_hamster]

If you read Alon's blog all the time you could have noticed his name isn't Alton.

[lolpython]

It’s an autocorrect typo, and if we are ruling on Alon trivia, Alon doesn’t go by “him” last I checked.

[jaclaz]

Allow me to comment how it is not technically accurate to "tag" the the Berlin S-Bahn or the Paris RER as "Europe".

I would say that those (together with very few other largish cities) are the exception and not the rule in Europe.