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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleHaiku
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??? …...
View ArticleReal-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...
View ArticleModerating 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…...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleHistorical 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...
View ArticleStreetcars: 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...
View ArticleHistorical 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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