Kristin Taylor writes practical essays for transit agency staff on rider communications, customer experience, and the data and technology systems behind service. Each issue draws on her consulting work, including MBTA projects, to explain how information and systems shape what riders experience during disruptions.
Website: https://www.kristintaylor.io/
Junk Charts critiques data visualizations and statistical claims, using frameworks like the Trifecta Checkup to examine charts, data and the questions behind them. Recent issues cover a reproduction of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine trial analyses, a critique of a subway-stop closure analysis, and a flawed bar chart of top acquisitions.
Detailed coverage of Ottawa's transit system, including Transit Committee meeting recaps, Stage 2 LRT progress, and route-level service reliability snapshots built from OC Transpo data. It holds OC Transpo and city politicians accountable on reliability, funding and planning.
A Colorado-focused newsletter about getting around without a car, mixing first-person long-distance cycling stories with local transit reporting. Readers get ride accounts, personal essays about moving to Colorado, and explanatory coverage of projects like Longmont's 1st & Main transit station.
Local advocacy journalism covering Seattle and Washington state on housing, transit, homelessness, and elections. Issues combine on-the-ground reporting from public meetings and forums with a pro-urbanist perspective.
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