A GTFS-Based Dataset for the US Intercity Bus Network Presents a GTFS of 72 intercity bus operators providing service in the United States, including schedules and routes.

A GTFS-Based Dataset for the US Intercity Bus Network

GitHub - BlinkTagInc/node-gtfs: Import GTFS transit data into SQLite and query routes, stops, times, fares and more. Import GTFS transit data into SQLite and query routes, stops, times, fares and more. - BlinkTagInc/node-gtfs

If you want to get GTFS into a database format to be able to query the number of trips to a specific stop, you can use github.com/BlinkTagInc/...

Super Bowl LX Begins With Moment Of Silence For Failed Bay Area Startups

Super Bowl LX Begins With Moment Of Silence For Failed Bay Area Startups

huge model of Terra Linda in Marin

Still from a video of a person placing a miniature car by tweezers

Motion control camera traveling along miniature roadway

First person perspective along roadway from motion control camera

In a fascinating union of two of my interests, it turns out that the technology that built the special effects of star wars (motion control) was invented by UC Berkeley to research how Marin residents would react to development proposals if they could see realistic video renderings.

MTA Admits To Fabricating Large Parts Of Subway Map

MTA Admits To Fabricating Large Parts Of Subway Map theonion.com/mta-admits-to-fabricatin...

Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :)
antirender.com

Pathfinder 1 airship flies by Downtown San Francisco. The largest aircraft in the world.

Bizzaro Duboce Triangle

Dr. Demento

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Ridecontest.com - Join the Bay Area Transit Riding Contest Track your rides, win fun prizes, and show your love for Bay Area transit!

Muni capitalization is updated! Thanks for the feedback. ridecontest.com

Starting off the 2025 #ridecontest today with a MUNI ride on Market St. ridecontest.com

What about ferry systems?

Tuffi on 21 July 1950, in front of the Wuppertal suspension railway ticket office. She is wearing a harness, and raising and curling her trunk as if to knock with it on the ticket office window. Her owner Franz Althoff stands back from her, nearer the camera, wearing a hat.

It’s the 75th anniversary today of a circus owner deciding that the best way to publicise his business would be to take an elephant on a suspension railway. ‘Tuffi’ responded by charging about in the suspended carriage, breaking through the side and falling 40 feet into the river below

Frame of preference A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

Luke Skywalker talks to Yoda on the misty swamps in Dagobah

Water irrigation traps are set up on the desert planet Tatooine.

… What it feels like on @bart.gov taking the Yellow Line from Balboa Park to Antioch.

Cannot wait for San Francisco to finally unite around our greatest strength: preventing something from being built.

Good to hear from you. I’m still in SF, where are you living these days?

TRAINing top

Arriving in 3, 15

Inspired by this, I made a website to easily create these types of visualizations. wbholland.github.io/trainspose

The hardest working font in Manhattan A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

Gorton: a font that you probably haven’t heard of but definitely have seen on a daily basis. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

You can run this accessibility check on any agencies GTFS using the web-based validator validator.blinktag.com or the library: github.com/BlinkTagInc/...

We wondered how the well Bay Area's 40+ transit agencies have implemented accessibility fields in GTFS, so created this dashboard to keep track.

accessibility.bayareatransit.org

It includes checks for wheelchair boarding info, color contrast, pathways and text-to-speech fields.

This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII

THE NUMBERS ARE IN.

WE DID IT! 24 HOURS EXACTLY.

"While our cross-border bond with the City of Detroit remains strong and important to us, as Mayor, I cannot in good conscience have Windsor taxpayers subsidize transit service to a country that is currently threatening our livelihood."

As you think about the CA fires, consider this:

Still our FAVOURITE line in any #Christmas movie:

“I don’t want to be a princess. I want to be an urban planner!”

In the 2005 movie “The Legend of Frosty The Snowman.” Later, the young girl creates a redesign for her home town made out of snow.

Instant classic, obviously. #HappyHolidays

Caltrain equipment is bound for Peru - Trains SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Caltrain’s diesel-powered commuter rail trainsets will find a new life in Peru. The commuter rail operator announced that it has completed an agreement to send 19 locomotives and ...

Caltrain's F40s and gallery cars are headed for Lima, Peru apparently
www.trains.com/trn/news-rev...