Hiatus: Check out Biking Columbus

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Hiatus: Check out Biking Columbus

December 9, 2011 by John

I haven’t been posting much at all lately, mostly because work has been crazy busy during the day and family time keeps me busy at night. Frankly, I’m not sure my time availability will ever improve, but it’s likely that I’ll try to make more time for blogging in the future.

In the meantime, I want to point you to a site that is posting on a daily basis; Biking Columbus. The site isn’t entirely about biking. The author has created some very cool unofficial COTA maps using Google Fusion tables. Note that the maps also show the frequent service portions of the bus network differently, as I did here and here.

Unofficial COTA Map from Biking Columbus

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Posted in Bus X-ing | 6 Comments

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on December 13, 2011 at 3:35 am | Reply minneapolisite

In Mpls there are designated high frequency bus routes so even at bus stops without a schedule there’s an icon with a “high-frequency” label so that any prospective bus rider will know that they won’t have to wait long regardless.
on January 26, 2012 at 6:05 pm | Reply Cole

Hey John,

I’m not sure if COTA’s original map had dashed lines for limited service routes when you were doing your mapping, but the 2012 map has the dashed lines. Still no high-frequency lines, though.

http://www.cota.com/assets/Riding-Cota/2012_COTA_System_Map_WEB.pdf
on January 26, 2012 at 9:20 pm | Reply John

Thanks for the tip Cole. They most definitely did not have dashed lines when I made my map. I think it’s a big improvement (but still not as good as my map). I have no way of knowing if they did this because of my ideas, someone else’s, or if they came up with it on their own, but I’m taking credit for this one
on January 26, 2012 at 10:19 pm | Reply Cole

To be honest, at one of the public meetings I attended they mentioned that they had “read” something on blogs. In that case they were referencing multi-pass tickets but if you read one thing on a blog you’re probably likely to read a lot more. Including a pretty sweet map. Maybe after they finish changes due to the casino with the 3/6/10 they’ll be able to add frequencies.
on January 26, 2012 at 10:52 pm | Reply John

I’m don’t see the connection between the casino opening and designating high-frequency routes on a map. They’ll probably do it eventually though. It’s just an easy-to-implement good idea.
on January 26, 2012 at 11:26 pm | Reply Cole

They are planning on changing their routes some. I agree that since most of the route won’t change that they might as well change the map to include frequencies, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Remember, I’ve only been transit oriented for 6 months so I am more generous.