… about transit is that it frees you up to read more. We've got a few ideas specifically about transit and urban planning to get you started. In Straphanger , Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case … "Tales Of City Transit To Read While You Wait For The Bus" by NPR promises that "all these books — some old, some new — will transport you: by train, plane, car, bike, boat, foot, city transit, horse, balloon, rocket ship, time machine and …