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HowDoYou Guide@howdoyou.guide · 2w ago

Putting together a simplified map of the ✨Port Authority Bus Terminal.✨ Walked through (probably) all the levels today. Somehow it makes even less sense once you figure out how it’s laid out. I have so many questions. They all begin with “Why”.

Escalators up to Gates 401 to 421 at Port Authority Bus Terminal. Escalator at left is switched off (temporarily stairs), escalator at right is blocked off, out of order.
HowDoYou Guide@howdoyou.guide · 2mo ago

A lot of transit systems assume all their riders are seasoned riders who live in their city. This makes it really difficult to attract both new local riders and casual visitors. Secret rules help nobody, but they're really common. "Oh everyone knows this bus stops over there now!"

HowDoYou Guide@howdoyou.guide · 3mo ago

HowDoYou tell if you're talking to an AI chatbot posing as a human? Method 1: Ask it to do some creative writing. (These messages were supposedly from a sales representative at a PR firm)

Screenshot of a sent text message requesting a poem about capybaras vacationing in Tenerife.Screenshot of a received text message containing a poem about capybaras vacationing in Tenerife.Screenshot of a text requesting a summary of the death star plans in preparation for the battle of Yavin. Followed by a received text detailing the death star plans and its critical weakness.Screenshot of a sent text message requesting a dialogue between Frodo Baggins and Inigo Montoya discussing how to select in-season citrus, followed by a received text message of said fictional discussion.
HowDoYou Guide@howdoyou.guide · 4mo ago

Just rode the subway with headphones and @transit.app "Go" routing for the first time. It gives audio reminders of how many stops you have left, even when using other apps (I was also playing a game AND watching a TikTok live stream). Huge accessibility win. 🙌🙌😍🚆

HowDoYou Guide@howdoyou.guide · 4mo ago

We just got back from a cross-country Amtrak trip! 9 stops, 4 nights on the train, and got around without cars *almost* everywhere. Highlights from several stops coming soon.

Passengers boarding an Amtrak train, daytimeView out the back of an Amtrak train, American southwestView outside an Amtrak train at night, San Antonio TXCoffee cup and small bowl of creamers on a table in the Amtrak dining car, looking outside.
HowDoYou Guide@howdoyou.guide · 4mo ago

Dear transit agencies of the world, please include on your home page: - What kind of transit you have - What (if anything) each of them costs Visitors laden with luggage don't have the time or patience to pore over 20 pages and as many PDFs.

HowDoYou Guide@howdoyou.guide · 5mo ago

Really trying to not take a car, but Lyft prices: $15 for one unwalkable mile from the bus stop to my destination. $17 from where I currently am ten miles away.

HowDoYou Guide@howdoyou.guide · 5mo ago

Apple Maps found me a slightly less busy intersection to do... this... in. Both the Apple and Google directions send me walking in areas with no sidewalks. I fear I may Uber the last mile.

Apple Maps screenshot, walking directions show meandering through an intersection as part of a 31 minute route.
HowDoYou Guide@howdoyou.guide · 7mo ago

Having traveled around the US quite a bit the past few years, we've seen a lot of this in person. Pretty much every city has at least *something* that looks like a recent improvement.

Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I can drop into literally any city in North America in Google Maps (any city I’ve tried, even very car-centric ones). And pretty quickly find decent pedestrian or cycling improvements that happened in the past 5 or 10 years. Like this part of Columbus, Ohio that didn’t use to have sidewalks.