December 27th, 2012 My definition of public transit: Multiple people use the same vehicle to go somewhere together Everyone has access to any vehicle or trip(at least nominally) Trips are scheduled in…
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Why the buses just stop
October 4th, 2014 A friend of mine just emailed with a very good question: Why do the buses just stop sometimes, with no one getting on or off, no traffic jam, etc,…
Why rail is sexy
October 16th, 2012 I have a theory that I don’t think is going to be very well liked: Rail transit is as popular as it is in large part because it tends…
Why I do it
February 18th, 2013 I was talking to an environmentalist recently, trying to understand why she wanted to go into environmental law. Why at the lowest level she wanted to do it…what her…
When TANK crosses the river
October 27th, 2012 There’s a lovely logic to the way TANK arranges their stops in Downtown Cincinnati. All lines can be boarded south of 5th Street Lines to or through Covington board…
What is transportation? Why do we need it?
September 30th, 2012 Don’t say ‘economic development’! Transportation is one of our most basic human needs. Without it, we would die pretty quickly. Transportation is the act of moving something from one…
What if everyone were a cyclist?
September 6th, 2017 And what if everyone had an even probability of visiting some other fellow cyclist who lived between 3 and 8 kilometers away from them? This would be a beautiful…
rban interstices
July 20th, 2015 Another in a series of posts that need finally to either die or exit my draft folder by publication. This one was composed sometime in the summer of 2014….
Updated Frequencies
August 9th, 2013 Below is a visualization of weekly frequency for each of SORTA’s routes, derived from the just-released GTFS data. The area of each square is directly proportional to the number…
Updated Cincinnati Transit Map now available
October 31st, 2013 It’s been available for a while, but I’m now more confident that I actually have everything in the right place 😉 The main PDF version can be found at:CincyMap.org/map…