Sitemap - 2025 - Thoughts About Cities
What's in✅ and What's Out🚫: 2026 Edition
Trees🌳, Birds🐦⬛ and the Uselessness of Blame 🫵🏽 — I Hope This Helps 👍🏽
Transit Scheduling 101: Scheduling Math ➗✖️
Let's Talk About The Chicago Parking Meter Deal 💸
How Kansas City Quietly Built One of the Best Streetcars in America
Transit Scheduling 101: What Is Transit Scheduling?
From the November 2025 CTA Board Meeting
Here's A Bunch of Cool Transit Projects That Just Started Service. Hope This Helps 👍🏽
😈The Corruption Track: Understanding Power in a Time of Political Sepsis
Innovation, Between The Taquitos and The THC Beverages at NACS
From the October 2025 CTA Board Meeting
On Transit Interiors, Emotional Intelligence, and the Art of Listening — I Hope This Helps
Good Transit In Akron, Neoride and the Northern Illinois Transit Authority. I Hope This Helps 👍🏽
Public Sector Consulting Isn’t Evil but We Have to Keep It Honest
Observations from the Street Trash
Fault vs Preventability, and an Update on Lincoln Yards. Hope This Helps 👍🏽
Integrated Transit and Thoughts on the Future of Chicago's Transit System in I Hope This Helps 👍🏽
Bus Bunching, Urban Design and a Response to Guerilla Urbanism
Chicago Wards, Aldermanic Prerogative and a City Charter?
I Hope This Helps👍🏽: Blame is Useless, but the Housing Ready Toolkit Isn't
From the July 2025 CTA Board Meeting
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽: Autonomous Public Transit 🚐 and Zoning (abolition)
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽: Desire Paths, Bike Lanes and Boterismo
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽: Taxes 💸 & Tower of Power 🎷
The Illinois Legislature Failed to Pass Transit Funding. Are We Headed for a Transit Death Spiral?
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽: Listening and Effective Communication 👂🏽
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽: BEBs and Letting Go
I Hope This Helps👍🏽: Zoning Edition
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽 (Week of 5/5)
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽 (Week of 4/28)
It's a Bus! It's a Van! It's...Microtransit?
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽 (Week of 4/20/2025)
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽 (Week of 4/14/2025)
Is the bus still running? Seriously...is the bus still running?? 🕜
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽 (Week of 4/7/2025)
I Hope This Helps 👍🏽 (Week of 3/31/2025)
Good Transit Is Simple: Lessons in Good Route Design
More Buses, Fewer Riders? Thoughts on the Ridership vs Coverage Tradeoff
A New Era for Chicagoland Transit: Seizing the Moment for a World-Class System
More Buses, More Riders: The Case for Frequent Transit
I Recently Attended a Public Meeting, and I think You Should Too!