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Transit Surfer Enhanced
We’ve recently got hold of a file of GPS coordinates for all the TriMet stops. We’ve employed that to add a new feature to the Transit Surfer. When you view the arrivals information for a stop, you not only get all the lines that arrive at that stop, you’ll also get a list of lines…
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A Natural Connection? Open Source Software and Alternative Transporation
I’ve often thought that the philosophies behind open source software and alternative transportation were fundamentally in sync. They’re about making better use of our shared commons. In one case, the commons of ideas and their expression, in the other, the commons of our public spaces and transportation infrastructure. I got a little bit of reinforcement…
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Trackless in Portland: Where’s My Bus?
As an occasional transit rider, using the system isn’t completely intuitive for me. Any time I don’t know when the next bus is coming is a moment when I might get frustrated and give up.That’s why the new technologies TriMet has been implementing have made the system a lot easier to use, which makes me…
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From our Readers
Cate points us to an editorial she heard on KINK about crosswalk safety. And Ron wants to remind us of the UN-HABITAT World Urban Forum in Vancouver, BC: http://www.wuf3-fum3.ca/ http://www.unhabitat.org/wuf/2006/default.asp http://www.unhabitat.org/