July 2010
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SF's Clipper: a cautionary tale for TransLink? →
As an early adopter of the Bay Area’s transit fare system, Clipper (formerly TransLink), I am familiar with its flaws. My least favorite is being questioned by overzealous transit cops when a Clipper card reader fails to read my card.
This morning, one of the card readers on my train informed…
Having had the chance to try out the Clipper when I visited San Francisco last month, I can...
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Wheels
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I’ve noticed that transportation is, by far, a surprisingly emotional topic of conversation for people. Bikes, cars, trains. Why are we so passionate about our wheels? Why do we love, hate, envy, despise them so much?
What do you think? I think it boils down to pure us-versus-them. Those people, we figure, that aren’t in my shoes, aren’t traveling the way I am, don’t...
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Fail Whale bus and train →
They got the cuteness but missed the association. Lost in translation, oops!
Taking a cue from Twitter thought: could we make service outage advisories on actual transit as cheerfully helpful as Twitter’s fail whale? Could we imagine an alternative to that muffled, barely audible “what are they saying?” feeling followed by the customary, “aww, crap” of finding out...
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