Sat 24 Feb 2007
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The openTTC guys have been making pretty good progress in putting together a basic TTC data set
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First steps towards putting together a Vancouver Transit Camp–the audio recording on the Moosecamp page that she links to is pretty interesting (and the quality is good enough to be listenable).(tags: transitcamp vancouver)
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Portland adds new pedestrian signage to their downtown area, on a $200K budget. Good signage helps make people less uncomfortable with unfamiliar areas. Anyone have readable pictures of these? I’m curious about what details are marked on the map
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Demo of Logi Vidarsson’s TTC trip planner, using scraped data. He’s willing to share the source, depending on the application.(tags: toronto tripplanner)
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Interesting musings on how to help people discover places of interest within their walkable vicinity. Transit and car-sharing go hand-in-hand with walkability, so anything we do to help people explore their surroundings on foot helps the cause of transit
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Article about how best to connect low-income areas with healthy food. The Austin “grocery bus” that the article mentions is intriguing. I remember that in Pittsburgh, the grocery stores nearest to low-income areas seemed to always have a few jitneys