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Making Transit More Useable, One Building Lobby at a Time
We installed two new Transit Appliances this week, in the lobbies of City Hall and the Portland Building (upgrading the Portland Building countertop unit to a flat screen). This is the first deployment of a new release of our flat screen distribution, and the new release supports WiFi, which simplifies a lot of installations. Thanks…
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Generate Some Transit Love from Apple
This week Apple made some waves by announcing that in the next release of software for the iPhone, iPad, et al they would replace the Google-based mapping utilities with their own. But then a few smarter folks noticed that while the Google toolset has transit information built in, Apple’s would not (third party apps can…
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Some (more) friendly advice for TriMet
As noted in the Open Thread, TriMet’s board approved the agency’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget at today’s board meeting, a somewhat controversial proposal that included the abolition of Free Rail Zone, a fare hike and a flattening of the fare structure, and another round of service cuts. The good folks at OPAL were out in…
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Oregonian Losing Enthusiasm for the CRC?
It would appear the bloom is off the rose: “We are thus at a point where all of the options are bad.”
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Dude, Where’s My Streetcar?
The Oregonian details schedule status for the Oregon Iron Works/United Streetcar order for the Streetcar Loop. Obviously we’re not celebrating. But I’d like to underscore a couple of points: 1) We’re not going to do anything that compromises the safety, quality or reliability of the new vehicles. If that means waiting, we’ll wait for delivery.…