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RI → DC → NYC → Montréal → Paris 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🚶‍♂️🚲🚍🚊🚰🏗️🏘️⛵️⚓️🗽🌳🏳️‍🌈🤔 work policy @transit.app et parfois en français

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · Apr 3

Have a project that helps people engage with government and speak up for:

⛔ Less traffic?
🚶‍♂️ Safer pedestrian streets?
🚲 Better bus and bike lanes?
🚌 More transit funding?

If @transit.app users can make a difference, we'll share it (for free) in the app!

Drop me a line 👉 forms.gle/Vgq7Y6WvqFgJ...

Transit @transit.app · Apr 3

Is there a project in your city that would make life better without a car? Read more about our advocacy and let us know how we can help 👉 go.transit.app/advocacy

Transit | The megaphone that’s making cities better

Share what’s happening in your city and help riders speak up for more transit, better bus lanes, and greener, safer streets

go.transit.app

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 3d

this is some good shit from nolan

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 4d

Here are the Subway/Metro Station design guidelines that were compiled by UMTA/USDOT in the 1970s in an attempt to prevent WMATA-style cost overruns again.

It got shelved when everyone at UMTA got laid off and we forgot it. But it's prescient about cost drivers -- rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11352

DOT ROSA P

ROSA P serves as an archival repository of USDOT-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, guidelines, recommendations, or other information authored or co-authored by USDOT ...

rosap.ntl.bts.gov

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 3d

This applies to much more than walking: "The human ability to adapt is the key to our spectacular success on this planet. Our problem is that the people who lead our public conversations, our elites of wealth and opinion, are often some of the least adaptable people on earth."

Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 4d

Is climate really a barrier to making cities walkable? Only if you listen too much to elites ... humantransit.org/2025/10/nobo...

"Nobody Walks Here. It's too Hot or Cold or Wet or Dry." — Human Transit

Almost everywhere I travel as a consultant, someone asks me whether it’s realistic to expect people to walk given the extremes of their climate. They don’t just ask me this in Edmonton and Singapore. ...

humantransit.org

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 5d

Indeed we do! More info about how we handle bike routing here: blog.transitapp.com/go-bike/

Transit app is now a bike app, too

Now, our app can help transit riders become bike riders, too, by showing which routes in your city are actually safe to ride.

blog.transitapp.com

Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 6d

This is a crossover episode I love. Enjoy Western Mass, Kenny!

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 11d

No problem. GOFS is intended to give passengers real-time info about services like taxis, ridehail, and on-demand transit, so freight tracking isn't really a use case. Hope this helps!

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 11d

The spec is agnostic about vehicle type — Sprinter vans are super common for demand-responsive services. I'm curious why you mention tractor-trailers... are those being used for passenger service? I hope not! 🚚

You can read documentation about vehicle_type here 👉 github.com/MobilityData...

github.com

Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 12d

The time has come for MobilityData to take the wheel — just like it did with GTFS and GBFS — and for the entire industry to get involved with GOFS.

Curious? Head on over to GOFS.org to get started 🚀

Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 12d

🚕 Now it's time for GOFS. The idea hatched a few years ago at an industry-wide working group: how can we make it easier to show on-demand transit, taxi, paratransit, and ridehail in navigation apps? @transit.app got rolling with a lightweight version, and slowly but surely, more people got involved.

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 12d

🚲 GBFS was developed by the North American Bikeshare Association, a coalition of cities and bikeshare operators. Over a decade, it's expanded to support all self-serve mobility, like carshare and scooters.

Proud note: @transit.app was the first app to support GBFS 👉 www.bcycle.com/news/2015/12...

NORTH AMERICAN BIKESHARE SYSTEMS ADOPT OPEN DATA STANDARD

www.bcycle.com

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 12d

🚌 GTFS was developed by Google Maps and TriMet in Portland as a simple way to share transit schedules. Over the past two decades, it's become an open, international standard that powers how everyone rides public transit.

It's worth reading the full story 👉 beyondtransparency.org/part-2/pione...

Pioneering Open Data Standards: The GTFS Story

beyondtransparency.org

Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 12d

MobilityData plays an important role, managing communities of software developers and transit experts that have developed around these open data standards, which are themselves the result of collaboration.

For example...

Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 12d

Well, it takes a LOT of collaboration. Between public agencies and private companies. Between customers, and clients, and yes even between competitors.

Orchestrating it all is a non-profit called MobilityData 👉 mobilitydata.org

MobilityData | The one-stop organization for mobility data standards

Credits: Anna Dziubinska / Unsplash To provide reliable and intuitive travel directions, public agencies, cities, and private companies need shared languages and tools. MobilityData meets that need…

mobilitydata.org

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 12d

Basically, these data formats (GTFS, GBFS, GOFS) are the open-source standards that allow different modes of transportation to appear in navigation apps: like Transit, Google Maps or Apple Maps.

Getting around would be a lot harder without them! So how do they even exist?

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 12d

👨‍💻 This one's for the transit data nerds

🚍🚆 GTFS is for buses and trains

🚲🛴 GBFS for bikeshare (& carshare & scooters)

🚐🚕 Now there's GOFS: for on-demand transit, paratransit, taxis & ridehail

Get the inside scoop on this open-source tech means for the entire industry 👉 blog.transitapp.com/gofs/

Transit | GOFS is ready for its close-up

Meet the open data standard for on-demand transit, taxi and ridehail trip planning

blog.transitapp.com

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 19d

Hey! Sent Tara a DM

Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · 21d

Lyon's city planning division has a new district plan for public consultation and feedback

Painting of cherubs bringing forth a map of Lyon, France. Painting can be found on the ceiling within Lyon City Hall.

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Steven @stevevance.net · Aug 23

“In the Philadelphia area, SEPTA is making a 20% service cut but will eventually have to cut service 45%. Cutting almost half of a transit system is not a way to make it more efficient.

It more like asking whether you’d like to keep your heart or your lungs.” humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...

The Fall of Philadelphia — Human Transit

The Pennsylvania State Senate has decided that the transit system of America’s fifth largest city should be substantially destroyed. Similar dramas are playing out in Illinois, Oregon, and Rhode Isla...

humantransit.org

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every lot rva @everylotrva.rvagc.social · Aug 23

2516 W Grace St, 33410
Total - $1,550,000.00
Dwelling - $1,332,000.00
Land - $218,000.00
Lot Sq Ft - 5444.92
Type - R Apartment 5-11 Units
Taxable - Yes
Year Built - 1923
Map - https://www.google.com/maps/place/2516+W+Grace+St+RICHMOND+VA+33410

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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · Aug 21

1560 North Kostner Avenue

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · Aug 14

Wow! I think Newport is the only municipality in Rhode Island that passed a resolution in opposition to the proposed RIPTA service cuts, especially on the routes that affect Aquidneck Island! 🚌⚓🌊 #SaveRIPTA #TransitIsEssential

cityofnewport.granicus.com/MetaViewer.p...

Cc: @pvdstreets.bsky.social

THE CITY OF NEWPORT

R E S O L U T I O N

OF THE

C O U N C I L

No.

CITY OF NEWPORT

A Resolution in Opposition to Proposed RIPTA Service Cuts
Affecting Aquidneck Island

WHEREAS, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) has
proposed service reductions as part of its plan to
manage a fiscal year 2026 deficit; and

WHEREAS, among the proposed service changes, Routes 60, 63, 64,
68, 231, and the Flex 203 South Aquidneck Zone are
slated for elimination, service reduction, ending
weekend service, or other restructuring—directly
impacting Aquidneck Island communities, including
Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth; and

WHEREAS, such changes would have severe consequences for
Aquidneck Island riders; and

WHEREAS, the elimination of Route 68 would sever connectivity
between one of Newport’s densest neighborhoods of
residents from downtown and crucial social services in
Middletown, undermining local equity goals; and

WHEREAS, Route 64 cuts would eliminate direct transit access
between Aquidneck Island and the University of Rhode
Island, striking a major blow to island students and
would undercut efforts to link education and employment
centers; and

WHEREAS, these service changes would leave many island
residents, particularly seniors, low-income families,
students, hospitality workers, and those dependent on
public transit, effectively stranded, unable to access
employment, healthcare, educational institutions, or
essential services; and

WHEREAS, eliminating existing fixed-route service significantly
reduces the likelihood of future restoration,
jeopardizing long-term local and regional mobility;
restoring demand alone may not prompt reinstatement of
routes once they are fully eliminated; NOW, THEREFORE BE
IT

RESOLVED, that the Newport City Council strongly opposes the
RIPTA proposed service cuts affecting Aquidneck Island
and Newport, and respectfully requests that RIPTA
reconsider these proposed service cuts; AND BE IT
FURTHER

RESOLVED, that the City of Newport stands ready to collaborate
with RIPTA, neighboring municipalities, state
officials, and transit advocates to identify
equitable, community-informed solutions that support
public transit on Aquidneck Island and Rhode Island as
a whole; AND BE IT FURTHER

RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the
Governor, legislative leadership and Newport
legislative delegation, RIPTA Board and CEO, and the
towns of Middletown and Portsmouth.

XAY KHAMSYVORAVONG
STEPHANIE SMYTH
ELLEN PINNOCK
LYNN UNDERWOOD CEGLIE
DAVID R. CARLIN III

IN COUNCIL
READ AND PASSED
______________________________
LAURA C SWISTAK, CMC
CITY CLERK

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · Aug 14

Philly shouldn't be in this situation. But with updated data from SEPTA, we use the app to educate riders... and amplify advocacy actions, so lawmakers get an earful.

SEPTA is first, but the rest of PA is next. If you live anywhere in the Keystone State, call your state senator and representative.

Transit @transit.app · Aug 13

Philadelphia! 📢

Big cuts to SEPTA service start August 24 unless the state provides sufficient funding. Use Transit to preview the cuts and tell lawmakers what you think!

Collage on yellow gradient. In background is PA state capitol building and SEPTA Bus with a "State cuts!" headway sign. In foreground is Transit app main menu interface featuring lines with "Cuts start Aug 24" notes, along with an enlarged view of the Network Preview prompt from the settings floating on top.

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Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · Aug 9

Such a no-brainer role for bikeshare stations. Love it.

Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · Aug 9

Some BIXI bike share stations in Montreal include tools to repair your own bike — even a pump for your tires!

Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · Aug 9

Cannot believe there's no hot air ballon emoji.

Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social · Aug 9

Empty lot in Newport, RI:

- Reduced from 44 units to 38
- Zoning requires 76 parking spaces (!!); developer wants to build 41

NIMBYs:
- "It’s a safety concern"
- "I don’t know anyone that’s opposed to workforce housing, but you have to do it reasonably"

www.newportthisweek.com/articles/new...

Newport Housing Proposal Faces Scrutiny by Board - Newport This Week

A preliminary proposal to construct 38 units of housing next to St. Peter’s Lutheran Church at 525 Broadway faced scrutiny at a Newport Planning Board meeting on Aug. 4 and was continued to September...

www.newportthisweek.com

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Steven @stevevance.net · Aug 8

I like seeing Transit app advising transit riders about the local fiscal cliff!

Have you seen this message? Well in case you didn’t tap it, go visit SaveTransit.org and learn about the service cuts and what you can do about them

Screenshot of Transit app that says, “only one thing can avoid devastating public transit cuts, take five minutes to contact your legislators with Better streets Chicago”

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