Posts with tag: public transit
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First things first: Portland Streetcar didn’t ask me to do it. It’s not an official port. It’s not even fully functional. I don’t know if they know about it or not, but I’m leaning towards they might now. Anyway, yesterday (Friday, 18 December) was a slow day for me. I […]
As previously mentioned, my thoughts on Portland’s public transit would be getting their own post. Now, to be fair, I’ve lived in Portland for just under three weeks. I haven’t seen public transit here in all four seasons yet, nor do I know anything about how things used to be. […]
Design generally isn’t something you should have to worry about as a public transit authority, but it makes a big difference. As a historically token-based system, card design has never been one of SEPTA’s strong points. If you’ve ever had a SEPTA pass, I think you know what I mean. […]
In case you missed it, SEPTA announced yesterday 24-hour subway service (as in actual trains, not busses) on the weekend is here to stay. No, seriously. I’m not kidding. And that’s huge. Earlier in the week, we got the biggest look we’ve had in a long time at the new […]
If you’re not a programmer, that title no doubt makes no sense to you. API stands for Application Programming Interface. In a nutshell, an API allows you to interact with data and applications. In the case of SEPTA, it means you can get the location of every single vehicle – […]
Having a bit of fun with mates back at Uni poke fun at Myki reminded me I haven’t shared my full thoughts on the system. Myki is a system I have to use here daily in Melbourne and while it’s not horrible, it far from being an efficient, reliable ticketing […]
By now, you should be well aware that I take an interest in my local public transit. Quality public transit is still one of the things the majority of the US lacks. A mate literally just linked me to a map of public transit in the US. There are gaping […]
First Things First Those of you who follow my Twitter feed and/or read The Age last Wednesday (20 November) may already know some of my thoughts on Melbourne’s newest tram, the E-Class, but I realize I haven’t formally shared them in one post. I’d like to change that. First off, in […]
Since I don’t really have anything new to say about living here in Australia, I thought I’d talk about a big part of Melbourne instead: trams. There are quite a lot of them here. But, given that Melbourne has the largest tram network in the world, that is to be […]
Obviously, if you don’t take SEPTA or if you don’t have a Twitter account, you can pretty much ignore this post. However, if you do, trust me when I say there is a good reason the tickers at the stations advertise their Twitter account. I forget how I found out […]
As I’ve mentioned on here before, I’m not one to go without cracking off a joke or two about SEPTA. There are times when you’re riding with a rather, shall we say “interesting”, crowd, reliability varies, especially in the on-time category, and we still use tokens (although those should be on […]