Transportation links and tidbits for Wednesday, April 21
April 21, 2010
Transportation links and tidbits for Wednesday, April 21
April 21, 2010
Tidbits and links time! Btw, if you have links & tidbits to sugest, or a photo to showcase on these posts, e-mail me at thebuzzer@translink.ca.
- There’s a number of conversations going on already about the UBC Line Rapid Transit public consultation we’re doing.
- Frances Bula’s post and reader comments
- the discussion over at Skyscraper Page’s forums
- the conversation at the Livable Region Blog
- Jarrett Walker at Human Transit has weighed in too
- the Transport Politic also has a post
- Zach Shaner has also weighed in
- (And join our UBC Line discussion boards too!)
- Our Surrey Rapid Transit Study is currently in its stakeholder phase, and Nathan from the South Fraser Blog attended one of the workshops.
- Beyond Robson went to bike school with two City of Vancouver councillors!
- Going Underground is a long-running blog about the London Underground, and it’s a funny, insightful exploration of all things Tube.
- Oooh — sneak peek of Edmonton Transit’s south LRT extension!
- Capital Metro from Austin, Texas has an item about Katherine McElwaine, a passenger who paints on transit every day! Here’s Katherine’s personal blog of paintings too.
- Another item from Austin: the city is trying a program called SnappATX, which attempts to engage and capture social media conversations and contribute them to Austin’s transportation strategy.
- The Boston Globe has an article about how a local developer built a public arrivals board for his bus, using the open data streams from the MBTA.
- Transportation for 60 people by bike, transit, and car. Check the comments for some interesting discussion of the photo!
- New York Magazine has a great profile discussing the fight over a bike path in Williamsburg: underpinning the battle is a clash between the hipsters and the devout Hasidic Jews who occupy the neighbourhood.
- Gordon Price posts about whether Granville should remain car-free, and how Dallas residents took back their streets.
Hey… Is it just me, or is that car parked on the sidewalk? =P
Not exactly… To create a more friendly sidewalk, the city wants to use parked cars as a buffer for fast moving vehicles. When there is no parked cars, the bollards keeps the traffic from using the curb as an additional travel lane.
So when do we get our real-time GPS-based ETA info? I assume it’s being worked on, hehe.
Yeah, it’s being worked on. Real-time data is something we really want to get out there. I believe the IT folks are in the early stages of figuring out how to get the data flow going.
By ‘Real-time’ will it show exactly when the next bus is coming or if a bus as been early and left already. Right now the next bus service only shows when the next scheduled bus is due. Not when the bus is actually coming.
If it is what I think your implying I’m going to be majorily happy. This is the one thing that will make the system almost perfect.
Yes, by real-time data I mean that it will show the *actual* bus arrival times, as read from the GPS devices inside each vehicle. The Next Bus service only shows the scheduled items, as you’ve pointed out.