Patience, there’s going to be a little bit of detail here… We have completed our first full (and raw and tentative) data set for the equity project. We have accumulated transit scores for over 12,000 points in the three-county area. I decided for the sake of completeness to include all census tracts that include some…

The first pass of scoring is complete, sort of. The map of all the selected tracts is below, and it’s apparent that the strategy of selecting just those tracts that have bus stops is insufficient, there are a number of census tracts inside the TriMet service boundary that have no bus stops. So I need…

What demographic data sets will we use to compare against Transit Score to assess equity? The 2000 Census is currently the only complete data set at the census tract level, so we’re going to start there. Obviously that’s way out of date and we shouldn’t reach any strong conclusions based on it. I was asked…

Following up on our Transit Equity post yesterday, we’ve begun grabbing our Transit Scores. It’s going to take about 10 days to fill them all in. But meanwhile we’ll show you the work in progress. This map has the census tracts that are complete so far, with the color representing the average Transit Score for…

It will be no surprise to our readers to hear that that there are some in the community who believe that our transit system has become less equitable in recent years as light-rail openings and budget-driven bus cutbacks create a perception of different service for different parts of the community. But is that accurate? Light…