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Anson Stewart

@ansoncfit

Analysis + Research @conveyal | Deputy Director @MITTransitLab | Transportation PhD 🚲🚌 https://teapaw.org/t.co/7wJfNlfetE on the blue site

Joined January 2014
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Actually, now @ ansonstewart.com over there. Domain as custom handle 👍👍 (and thanks to @kateontransport for the invite!)
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Signed up for Twitter for #TranspoCamp 2014. Heading over to to the cerulean space (ansons there) for #TCNE2023
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NWS Phoenix
@NWSPhoenix19 Aug 2023
525am: Well, that escalated quickly. Storms erupting across much of SE CA & far SW AZ. Flash Flood Warnings west of El Centro where over 2" of rain has fallen in just over the past hour. Another cluster of storms heading towards Yuma the next 1-2 hours. #cawx #azwx
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David Zipper@DavidZipper7 Aug 2023
In Philadelphia, SEPTA now offers college students a dirt-cheap "all-you-can-ride" transit pass --but only if their school buys one for ALL students. Swarthmore is the first to sign on. It's a model more colleges (& transit agencies) should consider. 🧵⬇️ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
How College Students Can Help Save Public Transit

How College Students Can Help Save Public Transit

Programs that offer unlimited bus and train rides for those enrolled in colleges and universities can breed a new generation of transit fans.

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New research! We developed multiple approaches to infer mobility of care and women's travel on transit using fare card data: “Can Mobility of Care Be Identified from Transit Fare Card Data? A Case Study in Washington D.C.” doi.org/10.32866/001c.75352.
Can Mobility of Care be Identified from Transit Fare Card Data? A Case Study in Washington D.C. |...

Can Mobility of Care be Identified from Transit Fare Card Data? A Case Study in Washington D.C. |...

By Daniela Shuman, Awad Abdelhalim & 5 more. We propose a data-driven framework to identify mobility of care from transit smart fare card transactions and find disproportionately more mobility of...

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Painful headways. Even after cutting schedules for July, @MBTA still claims this bus comes every 15 minutes or less.
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With the #MBTA slow zones on the Red Line, maybe I'll take the #1 bus, which is supposed to come every 10 minutes. *checks real-time arrivals* 😭
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Why have a bus every 10 minutes when you can have 3 buses every 35 minutes? 🙃 #busbunching
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Chaser for the afternoon commute teapaw.org/MBTA/status/1651649455…
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@MBTA27 Apr 2023
Shuttle buses replace Red Line service between Harvard and Park St due to Fire Department activity at Kendall/MIT. Please expect delays as shuttles are dispatched.
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TRB@NASEMTRB24 Apr 2023
Access to opportunities can be tough to define. @ansoncfit sheds light on measures to do so next time you're selecting a project. Join us at June's TRB Innovations in Travel Analysis and Planning Conference in Indianapolis. Register today! #TRBplanning ow.ly/1QbE50NihBJ
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This. "My biggest risk as a transit rider comes from crossing the street to get to the bus stop, not other riders. Transportation advocates need our narratives to match the real risks so we can get the policy attention on the right things."
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"A lot of the transit safety conversation is actually about the discomfort and fear that comes from being in proximity to people whose actions we cannot control or always predict. To ride public transit is to come face to face with a wide cross section of society."
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"Some of our discomfort arises from not wanting to, or knowing how to, process seeing that our society is persistently failing people. Transit is the site of this discomfort because it is one of the remaining truly shared public spaces in our society." laurelintransit.com/2023/04/…
We need to talk about how we talk about transit

We need to talk about how we talk about transit

This post builds off David Zipper’s article “How to save America’s public transit system from a doom spiral”. Yes, I know I missed the two-day lifecycle of stories on the internet, but I was busy. …

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Join us Thursday at 5:30pm with local universities, nonprofits, community leaders, designers, and more to learn about and find a team for our Design Grants program. Are you an activist, organizer, data analyst, storyteller, or artist? Share your expertise! eventbrite.com/e/54794216877…
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We're proud to announce MetROW, the watery transit option for those who don't mind rowing the boat. Our Metro Coxswains are here to help you huff, puff and get where you're going. 🎣 allowed. Eat 🐟 with extreme caution. #April 1
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Henry McKay@hankhmckay24 Mar 2023
Made a few maps illustrating the impact of transit frequency on non-work access to destinations in the Sacramento area.
Map of the greater Sacramento region showing the difference in access to destinations by transit between the 5th percentile travel time scenario and 95th percentile scenario, expressed as a percent decrease. Map illustrates where lower-frequency parts of the network lead to lower non-work access to destinations. These areas include the outer reaches of Elk Grove, West Sacramento, and Folsom, amongst others.

ALT Map of the greater Sacramento region showing the difference in access to destinations by transit between the 5th percentile travel time scenario and 95th percentile scenario, expressed as a percent decrease. Map illustrates where lower-frequency parts of the network lead to lower non-work access to destinations. These areas include the outer reaches of Elk Grove, West Sacramento, and Folsom, amongst others.

Map of the greater Sacramento region showing the difference in access to destinations by transit between the 5th percentile travel time scenario and 95th percentile scenario, expressed as a raw difference. Map illustrates where lower-frequency parts of the network lead to lower non-work access to destinations. Since this map shows the raw decrease, the areas with the greatest difference are those with the highest transit access to begin with, such as areas along the light rail network.

ALT Map of the greater Sacramento region showing the difference in access to destinations by transit between the 5th percentile travel time scenario and 95th percentile scenario, expressed as a raw difference. Map illustrates where lower-frequency parts of the network lead to lower non-work access to destinations. Since this map shows the raw decrease, the areas with the greatest difference are those with the highest transit access to begin with, such as areas along the light rail network.

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Dan Walters@DanCALmatters22 Mar 2023
An hour-long video tells the history of Tulare Lake, illustrated with old photos and maps: youtube.com/watch?v=Vno7tDj_…
Tulare Lake

Tulare Lake

Michael Semas, historian describes the history of Tulare Lake

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Dan Walters (@DanCALmatters) profile pictureDan Walters@DanCALmatters15 Mar 2023
New column: How California's winter rains will revive Tulare Lake - CalMatters calmatters.org/commentary/20…
California's ghostly Tulare Lake will be revived this year

California's ghostly Tulare Lake will be revived this year

Tulare Lake disappeared as water was diverted to irrigate California crops. This year, however, the lake will once again emerge.

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Forced and mandatory parking minimums are contributing to our housing and climate crisis. Outdated parking standards need major reform in downtown cores and along impacted rail and transit lines. We are working on a major federal bill to address this challenge.
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@CALFIRE_TUU personnel in cooperation with @USACESacramento, @OCFireAuthority and @TulareCoFire created a debris collection system at Lake Success today. This system uses a chain of booms to act as a barrier for large objects in the water that could cause blockages downstream.
Image from CAL FIRE Tulare Unit (@CALFIRE_TUU)
Image from CAL FIRE Tulare Unit (@CALFIRE_TUU)
Image from CAL FIRE Tulare Unit (@CALFIRE_TUU)
Image from CAL FIRE Tulare Unit (@CALFIRE_TUU)
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