Sun 18 Mar 2007
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Discussion by one of the Transit Camp protagonists comparing “traditional” activism with ____ Camp activism. I spent some time going to “traditional” transit activist meetings and the negativity (and infighting!) was a big turn-off.(tags: transitcamp activism)
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GoLoco is a carpooling social network with a trip planner-style interface, the sort of thing that many people have been talking about for years. Godspeed!(tags: carpooling tripplanner)
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Discussion of how far people are willing to walk to transit routes. In my own experience areas that make the pedestrian feel impatient, bored, or unsafe are bigger factors than actual distance. Can a trip planner encode “psychological distance”?
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Discussion of how the independent California Transit Information Pages of the late 90’s may have provided better service than their modern, official equivalents, and why they died out.