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KINDA T-shirts now available

Just in time for Xmas, KINDA t-shirts are now available for purchase at Rock, Paper, Scissors in Over-the-Rhine! (I also have the TANK T-shirts there too) The KINDA shirts are printed on grey-white...

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Another Stab at the 2014 Ridership Dataset

I’m taking a self-guided course in R this semester — that is, teaching myself, but with deadlines — and since I’ve been playing with transit data for the most part, it seems appropriate to tickle y’all...

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“without raising fares”

A wee nit to pick from SORTA’s recent “State of Metro'” dog and pony show: I distinctly remember one of the speakers saying something like ‘and all this without raising fares!’, and this to my feeble...

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Haiku

Trying At least and Not badly, they Know their role … Stuck! Only working here for now Ready to defend The way things Are … Haiku is dumb. Or perhaps just poorly transliterated? Iambic tetrameter??? …...

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Real-time display project funded!

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be spending part of this summer working with Daniel Schleith and Brad Thomas on a rather exciting project… Thanks to a grant from People’s Liberty, we’re going to have...

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Moderating two definitions of access

This post was written in the winter of 2014, but for some reason I got distracted and never posted it. Now I’m cleaning house, and here it is! In case you were wondering why it’s about winter weather…...

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An update on the real-time display development

So, as you may remember, I’ve been tasked with developing a live display using SORTA’s real-time API. The basic idea is to put tablet computers around town in store windows, behind bars, on coffee shop...

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Historical vehicle location data

In case anyone is interested, I’ve begun storing data from SORTA’s GTFS-realtime feed. I started the script today and I see no reason to stop it unless I start running out of space on my server. I’ve...

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Streetcars: Lessons from Toronto?

It’s been requested that I post offer some fresh thoughts on the issue of the Cincinnati streetcar project, in light of the two years I’ve spent so far in Toronto, a city with, indeed, many streetcars...

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Historical SORTA real-time data available

For the last few months I’ve been scraping SORTA’s real-time GTFS data for vehicle positions. I don’t really have any plans for what to do with all of it, but it’s easy for me to collect and I figure...

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