Explaining the problem of run-times

Hi longtime readers and people stumbling over this site while googling how to transform transit or mix qualitative and quantitative data. It has been a while since I posted anything here, but I do have some new posts on the site of Public Advocates, where I am working as a transportation policy advocate.

It has been a bit of a transition to go from working in an agency back to being an advocate. When I see transit agency Board presentations I still find myself thinking how I would have presented the same material. One of the biggest differences is that I no longer have any positional power or a title from which to leverage my opinions. But my years inside did give me an advocate super power since I can sometimes see through the opaque agency walls to understand what is going and translate the agency lingo.

Right now I am working with bus operators and transit riders in the East Bay to engage with AC Transit’s service realignment planning process. I wrote a post explaining the building blocks of transit planning and scheduling and how the decisions impact bus operators. And I wrote a post that tries to illuminate the disconnect between what the agency Board is hearing from planners and from bus operators on the issue of adequate schedules.