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.
Website: https://www.transitottawa.net/
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.
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.
Technical posts from Interline on transit data, covering GTFS, Transitland datasets and tools, and how to use them for analysis and station mapping. Readers get hands-on walkthroughs, worked examples and explanations of how feed versioning and pathways data work.
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