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Transit Info Envy
Streetsblog in New York is decrying the state of available online transit info from the MTA and holding up Portland as the shining example.
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Reviewing the iPhone Transportation Apps
Via the Trillium Solutions blog: “Traffic” author Tom Vanderbilt catalogs iPhone apps.
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Portland to Astoria via Tillamook
Thanks to the correspondent who writes that you can get from Portland to Astoria via TriMet, the Tillamook County Transportation District and the Sunset Empire Transportation District purely on scheduled transit. But the real news is that you can plan the entire trip on Google Transit. That’s the value of standards and open data. Let’s…
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Visualizing Transit
This first came across my desktop as a podcast, which intrigued me enough to track down the video. There are several great visualizations related to transit included, one from our own back yard. Worth a look.
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Victory Lap for TriMet
I like to think of myself as sort of the “loyal opposition” for TriMet – in agreement with their mission and supportive of their efforts in general, but pushing them to do a better job, and not afraid to point it out when I think they’ve made a mistake. But today I’m an unabashed fan.…