Josephine Roper @jroper@transportation.social

Anyone else get really curious about where each individual car on the road is going? I mean not during peak hour, then you can fit them into the societal narrative of workdays, I mean like 10am on a Friday in a random suburb, 6am on a Sunday, where is everyone going?

Same when I go past a café in a residential area on a weekday that's full of people. What are your stories? What are you all up to?

The world is so complex, and what I know is so limited.

@cd24 @JamesGleick @pluralistic It's been so hard to find a decent answer by searching for this! At least as of a month or two ago.

For #Sydney people, this is a quick and fun (reportedly) way to help with some #walkability research

http://map-me.org/sites/en/sydneywalk

spent two days getting a webscraper working that isn't related to my phd in any way, shape or form. Stupidity, yet eventual elation.

@Andbaker Really interesting. What is Turnitin providing in terms of analysis, eg does it highlight specific sections as it does for other sources? Does it provide any reasoning attached to the highlights? What did you think from looking at the positives yourself?

I wonder if you could run an anonymous survey asking students if they had used it, and see how the %s line up.

oh and in the name of #openscience I'm trying to put more of my scribbles online, this can be found here:

https://github.com/JosephineRoper/Access-visualisations/blob/master/Wimbo%20Park%20LR%20stop.ipynb

@static Yeah. It would be cool to split them and run double the frequency... as I understand the length was a compromise to create less delay for cars at intersections, but not sure that it holds up if measured in person-delay.

These close stops here and in the CBD would make more sense if the light rail was faster - long dwell times and slow acceleration seem to be the main causes which could potentially be improved.

But I haven't done an end-to-end access analysis which would help really understand how useful or not the stop is.

Petition for another light rail stop in Surry Hills: https://www.teamclover.com.au/wimbolightrail

I've signed mostly because I don't like the argument that stops would be too close together because of a fixed '400m catchment', which is outdated and not representative of mode choice decisions & experience for shorter trips.

Having registered my opposition to catchment analyses... here's a rough one anyway.

@jakecoppinger I want to make some kind of map or viz about all the holidays you could make with a bike in NSW, not just rail trails... Small towns where the beach or the sites (cliffs for me) are 2-10km from town. Easily bikable distances, but too far for most to want to walk.

But maybe the cycle trail tourism argument is already sufficient.

@Transportist and who also would not rather just get a cooked dinner delivered for much the same price. (I think that's why people in my complex, who otherwise fit the description, stopped using it).

@KyleStewart Impact on others inside or outside the company? I used to teach a course on ethics in engineering that had a lot of readings about the latter. So while I don't know the blog post I could send something if you are interested in that.