Montreal guy rips into the city's new bus shelters, mostly over issues that seem highly relevant to NYC's current CEMUSA/Grimshaw collection.

M. Karlcow responds to OT.

Via the Spacing folks, a comprehensive guide to one transit system's misadventures with signage, both conventional and digital. I'd rather focus on best practices than worst, but this was telling: "Despite spending $400,000 on the prototype project, the TTC decided against put up the $8 million required to retrofit the entire system. Sixteen years later, the prototype signage has yet to be removed from St. George station..."

Spot-on enumeration of the issues specific to one mode of urban transit.

Bruno Marzloff - intelligent critique and extension of Georges Amar's thought, and my own.

A nicely-shot look at the upgrading of transit provisions on lower Broadway.

This is really poorly executed, but the idea isn't so far off.

From "the liberal" Brookings Institution.

From the Center for Public Policy Studies, CSU Stanislaus, June 2002

November 2007

February 2010. Not exactly a winner of a title, especially in this climate. These guys are right on, but could use some help with the ol' PSYOP.

So my question would have to be, who decided on the parameters of this specification? Is Google now in a position to tell transit operators how to structure their data (duh), or was there some existing semantics they picked up and extended?

Sha, you are truly a Stamenite now.

A heroic transcription of the talk I gave in Brighton last year. While revealing all my tics and weaknesses as a speaker, it's nonetheless not a bad effort.

This shouldn't be news, but it is.

Well, OK, so they need a little help with the graphic design. But the *idea* is right on!

More on Bus-Tops. I don't particularly care for the ho-hum, abuse-magnet way they've got this set up, but combined with Foursquare logic it might get interesting. (Become the mayor of your bus stop!)

Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.

Notes toward an art project placing networked LED panels in London bus shelters.

Via Berkman, an interesting comparison of municipal attitudes toward transit data. (Broadly: East Coast cities see such data as IP to be, urgh, monetized; West Coast cities perhaps unsurprisingly treat it more like a public good.) Will want to start authoring legislation mandating that such data be held in the public trust and made freely and universally available for the common good of all.

Lovely intermodal thinking here, with some elegant (and some silly) design directions.

Just getting to this now. Sigh.

This is the kind of infuriating half-stepping and bullshit excuse-making that's swiftly rendering my beloved New York into an informatic backwater. You best believe I'm planting boots in asses when I get back. Sassan Davoodi, this means you.

Lost and now found again, all of HKL's vehicles reporting their positions in real time.

Nguh. Transit-nerdgasm. "Building a dream for tomorrow." Teh sad. Via migurski.

Late to the party on this, but what a lovely piece of work. A perfect concrete example of the kind of situated, bespoke life-improvement system public-object APIs should almost trivially enable. (Paul did it the hard way.)

Shit and civilization.

"The real question is, what is left for New Yorkers to lord over people who live someplace else? That question was on some New Yorkers’ minds this week when they heard about Google’s new transit map service." HAW.

Via Nicolas.

Great thinking here.

Great. Now if someone could explain to me just what this so-called "New York City model" actually is...

Via migurski.

Dan, once again a half-step ahead of me. [Crumples last two weeks of work.]

Interventions in the streetscape that *don't* require permission from upstate.

Via Jones: Just what I'd called for in class a few weeks back: a touchless card that visibly stores a history of trips taken.

Best. Museum. EVAR.

Via Timo. Wow.

Dumbed-down reporting here, but it gets at the essentials.

Helsinki fits out its buses with Linux servers. A project filled with Yes...and so very, very timely.

Yes.

What I call "the MetroCard float" is here acknowledged, even thought of as something to be exploited by MTA.

*Not* enamored of these, but for that they rather strongly remind me of Blade Runner's blocky "Metrokab" identity.

While I was in Amsterdam, a little bit of Amsterdam came to NYC!

Pinch me, I'm dreaming. Can we have this on Second Ave?

Needs more Helvetica

Some incredibly lovely pictures here.

The fearless MTA, "testing" a system that other city transit authorities have had in place for, oh, twenty years now...

Kinda wish I had known about this. OTOH, looks *awfully* academic.

Mmmmmmm, transit-oriented and Danish...

Poignantly, NYC is losing its status as America's walking capital. Notes the culprit is Atlanta-style suburbanization - oh boy do I agree. Keep New York New York!

Explaining Tokyo's new touch-and-go transit card. Seems unwieldy at first pass, and at second - but at that, still lightyears ahead of NYC.