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Cailin Pitt
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Sep 1, 2026
Using my transit card data to create a year in review experience
Building an unofficial wrapped experience for the CTA
Chicago
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Transportation
Cailin Pitt
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Aug 21, 2026
Atlanta has grown up
Atlanta has improved a lot in the two years I've been gone
Atlanta
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Transportation
Cailin Pitt
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Aug 8, 2026
I love electric scooters
A reflection on electric scooters.
Transportation
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Scooters
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Dec 9, 2025
Compartmentalizing
How the shipping container, a dominant force in ocean shipping, came from a truck driver whose invention proved to be too good at its job.
shipping
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shipping containers
Bryan
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May 6, 2025
The Future of Portland Transit Hangs in the Balance
The Oregonian podcast Beat Check recently shared an episode titled "A Perilous Moment for Portland Mass Transit" in which it highlighted the growing crisis facing TriMet, Portland's regional transit agency, as it grapples with declining ridership, financial strain, and public perception challenges. While crime on the system has dropped since the pandemic, fare evasion has nearly doubling from 15 percent in 2016 to close to 30 percent in 2024. The agency is pushing for an increase in the payroll
transportation
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urbanism
Low Velocity
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May 6, 2025
The Future of Portland Transit
The Oregonian podcast Beat Check recently shared an episode titled "A Perilous Moment for Portland Mass Transit" in which it highlighted the growing crisis facing TriMet, Portland's regional transit agency, as it grapples with declining ridership, financial strain, and public perception challenges. While crime on the system has dropped since the pandemic, fare evasion has nearly doubling from 15 percent in 2016 to close to 30 percent in 2024. The agency is pushing for an increase in the payroll
Transportation
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Urbanism
Cailin Pitt
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Aug 8, 2021
Ebikes completely changed how I get around
How ebikes changed my relationship with bicycling, transportation, and getting around without a car.
Bicycling
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Ebikes
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jun 30, 2021
Ribbon-Cutting Overkill
The evolution of the ribbon-cutting ceremony, as seen through the sharp blades of a huge pair of ceremonial scissors. Did a bridge just open nearby?
scissors
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ceremonial scissors
Cailin Pitt
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Sep 4, 2020
Leaving Cities
Thoughts on leaving cities, personal change, and the pressure to justify where we choose to live.
Cities
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Life
Cailin Pitt
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Apr 25, 2020
Lost Cincinnati: Lincoln Park
The history of Cincinnati’s lost Lincoln Park and the urban renewal project that erased it.
Lost Cincinnati
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Cincinnati
Cailin Pitt
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Apr 8, 2020
Midwest Yearnings
A New Yorker’s evolving relationship with Midwestern cities, public transit, and urban life.
Cities
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Midwest
Cailin Pitt
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Mar 21, 2020
2020 Vision: West End
How Cincinnati’s Kenyon-Barr urban renewal project displaced the West End to build Queensgate and Interstate 75.
Cincinnati
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Urban History
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jun 13, 2019
It’s Just A Swipe Away
Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans.
os/2
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subway
Anil Dash
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Jul 11, 2016
Coloring Books
Red Book, Yellow Book, Green Book Stay within the lines. --- The Red Book There’s a specification that Phillips published in 1981, for optical digital encoding of audio. They teamed up with Sony to create the standard, and by the following year hardware was on the market in the new format: Compact…
music
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policy
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Oct 20, 2015
An Escalating Danger
Mitch Hedberg's famous joke about escalators turning into stairs when they break isn't as funny as it sounds. Why? Because escalators are dangerous.
manufacturing
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building design
Anil Dash
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Jun 18, 2012
The Importance of Public Traffic Data
Today a number of folks are talking about the importance of public transit data as Apple tries to shift from Google’s historic integration of public transit data in its maps product to a new world where each individual transit provider would create an iOS app that would then be linked to from…
tech
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ios
Anil Dash
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Dec 7, 2007
Unsolicited Testimonial: ZipCar
What It Is: ZipCar is a car sharing service, which lets you rent (or share, if you prefer) a variety of cars by the hour for a low fee that includes everything — even gas. ZipCar recently acquired Flexcar, so they’ve got cars in a good number of cities, and I’ve been able to live in both San…
nyc
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transportation
Anil Dash
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Dec 6, 2007
Unsolicited Testimonial: LimoLiner
What It Is: LimoLiner is an executive-class bus service from New York to Boston (or vice versa) that gets you from the center of one city to the other in about 4 and a half hours, for less than a hundred bucks. If you count getting to the airport early and taking a cab, it ends up being about the…
nyc
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tech
Anil Dash
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Sep 7, 2006
Draw the Map, Draw the World
The Sunday New York Times ran a fantastic article by Alex Mindlin, Win, Lose, Draw: The Great Subway Map Wars that details a battle that has brewed, off and on, for the past 30 years. There are, it seems, at least two distinct systems of belief about what constitutes the proper set of assumptions…
nyc
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subway
Anil Dash
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Aug 17, 2005
The Best Subway Stops in the World
This fantastic series of photos of subway stations really makes me appreciate mass transit in a way that I haven’t in ages. Look at Stockholm! Any space where people spend a significant amount of time waiting every day should be beautiful. It seems like that’s something people agree on, regardless…
nyc
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subway
Anil Dash
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Aug 10, 2001
Part of the reason I
Part of the reason I know Crans is cool is because he likes the new 6 trains, too.
transportation
Anil Dash
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Jul 26, 2001
So, personal transportation has come
So, personal transportation has come up as a topic in my office again, leading me to advocate the PowerSkip once more.
transportation
Anil Dash
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Mar 19, 2001
Cars vs. People; A Triumph of the Feet
"The vitality of a city comes from its pedestrians, not its cars." Tampa Bay Online has a dramatic series of photographs illustrating an article on how cars enter a city’s dynamic at the expense of people. Here in Manhattan, we seem to have understood that truism intuitively, if not consciously.…
pedestrians
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cars
Anil Dash
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Oct 26, 1999
UPS truck-based package drop-offs
I don’t know how recent the addition is, but I’ve noticed in the past few weeks that increasing numbers of UPS trucks have drop slotson the side for people to put delivery envelopesdirectly into the truck. My first reaction was to flash back to those TV news-magazine scare storiesa few years ago…
tech
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transportation
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