Author: Chris Smith

  • Modal Attitudes

    Via a tweet from BTA Executive Director Rob Sadoswky, a fascinating review of sources of attitudes about various modes of transportation. So here’s wishing all our readers a Happy New Year with our modal biases suspended… Be safe out there.

  • Origin Stories, Continued

    Last week I shared a clip of my first bicycle. I continue to work my way through the converted video files from my old family Super-8 movies and suspect I may have found an early influence for my multi-modal transportation obsession. In the summer of 1965 I traveled to New York City with my parents…

  • Another Step Forward for Transit Appliances

    The holiday break has been productive, I had a chance to polish up the first pass (“beta”) of a configuration service for the Transit Appliance project. This is a web-based GUI that lets you configure a custom display for transit arrival information. The idea is to allow this tool to configure multiple applications, and for…

  • Where it All Began

    This year my Christmas present to my family was getting all of my Mom’s old Super-8 home movies converted to digital video files. While going through the videos and cataloging the content, I came across this sequence – my first bicycle, just after the training wheels came off (circa 1967). Looking forward to smiling big…

  • Updated: Transit Tax Benefit to Expire?

    Update: 12/21/10 The benefit is safe for 2011. Original post: 11/23/10 Part of the stimulus bill was a provision that allowed employer-provided transit benefits to be deductible expenses at the same level as parking: up to $230 per month. That provision will expire in January and the cap on deductible transit benefits will return to…