Daveography 🇨🇦
The Edmonton Arts Council (EAC), on behalf of the City of Edmonton, is seeking artists/artist teams residing in Canada to create canopy art for six LRT stops on the Valley Line West LRT. One artist/artist team will be selected for each location.
keithzgI finally got around to making a webapp for ETS nearby stop times, it's very rough and there's no realtime info yet because that's needlessly complicated (but I'll probably get around to that in a day or two at this rate). URL also likely to change, but if you're curious you can try it out at https://kloud.keithzg.ca/opentakeets/ and I'd be *very* interested to hear feedback (especially if there's anything you find missing from existing interfaces— though fair warning "trip planning" isn't something I've ever used in any era of my own transit use *and* it's conceptually kinda complicated, so any such requests will land far at the back of the todo queue).
For a long while now it has annoyed me that every existing interface to #YEGtransit is proprietary, which felt very fixable considering the ostensibly open data, and it feels good to have finally scratched my own itch here!
TECHNICAL INFO FOR NERDS:
Source available at https://phabricator.keithzg.ca/diffusion/TAKEETS/ and uhh right I should add a license file, it's copyleft-next which is compatible with GPLv3 and AGPL amongst possibly others (I forget at the moment, but it's a nice short readable license). Source extremely messy due to a few eras of abortive work on this, will probably get both less and more messy in the near future.
Right now it's a webapp requiring PHP and MariaDB (or non-union equivalent) to run on your server, and probably soon additionally Python for realtime data due to Google's protobuf format being quasi-proprietary junk, but I might get around to native apps where you don't have to send location data to some dork's server or run your own. A friend of mine is writing a version in Rust+SQLite, and like most Rust projects it isn't nearly as feature complete as the slapdash from-scratch implementation and can't currently compile on my home system running an up-to-date LTS Linux install so I haven't even checked out how far she's gotten.
#yeg #alberta #opendata #edmontontransit #opentakeets
For a long while now it has annoyed me that every existing interface to #YEGtransit is proprietary, which felt very fixable considering the ostensibly open data, and it feels good to have finally scratched my own itch here!
TECHNICAL INFO FOR NERDS:
Source available at https://phabricator.keithzg.ca/diffusion/TAKEETS/ and uhh right I should add a license file, it's copyleft-next which is compatible with GPLv3 and AGPL amongst possibly others (I forget at the moment, but it's a nice short readable license). Source extremely messy due to a few eras of abortive work on this, will probably get both less and more messy in the near future.
Right now it's a webapp requiring PHP and MariaDB (or non-union equivalent) to run on your server, and probably soon additionally Python for realtime data due to Google's protobuf format being quasi-proprietary junk, but I might get around to native apps where you don't have to send location data to some dork's server or run your own. A friend of mine is writing a version in Rust+SQLite, and like most Rust projects it isn't nearly as feature complete as the slapdash from-scratch implementation and can't currently compile on my home system running an up-to-date LTS Linux install so I haven't even checked out how far she's gotten.
#yeg #alberta #opendata #edmontontransit #opentakeets
Chad 
Shoutout to the hardworking ETS drivers and peace officers for getting everyone to and from home safe tonight!
Meghttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-transit-arc-card-9.7007970
Discovered by accident today that debit/credit tap is now accepted on Edmonton transit arc terminals. :o
It even honors fare caps if you use the same card consistently!
Definitely thought this would take longer!
WanderingHuman 🇨🇦Need some #yegtransit #DATS #disability advice.
My elderly mother does not want to (and probably shouldn't) drive in the winter. My lives in a care home halfway across the city. It's a 20-25 minute car ride between them, but looking at transit options, transit would be awful - 45-65 minutes, at least 2 transfer, including crossing 101 St and 111 Ave. In the winter. With a cane or walker.
CAN she take transit? Yes. Does this exclude her from using DATS? Probably.
Is it reasonable to expect an elderly person with limited mobility to take a 45-65 minute transit commute as described above, both ways, 2-3 time/week?
Any advice or suggestions?
(I really wish they hadn't place my dad where they did, it's too far. 😞)
Amelia Bellamy-Royds 
2/2
But both of those stores, relatively convenient to get to, are in neighbourhoods that I've never been. I would have never had reason to know they were there if I hadn't looked them up.
I could take the #9 all the way to the far northside. Never been there. I could see if there are actually any clear waters in Eaux Claires, which I know only as the terminus of the bus route.
Or I could take a shorter but 2-bus route to the Royal Gardens / Greenfield neighbourhoods just south of the Whitemud expressway. Not that far beyond Southgate Mall where I walk/bus regularly, but not on the route to anywhere I'd be going, except I guess now for the grocery store in the neighbourhood strip mall. It's even close enough (<4km) that I could walk one way if the weather was nice & only bus back. Look, there's a pedestrian overpass across the expressway, so I wouldn't even have to walk along the noisy roads. I've surely driven under that walkway, but it looks nicer from the pedestrian view!
Yegventures | Lincoln Ho 何令恒
Valley Line at a standstill due to an emergency situation Downtown around Churchill. #yegtraffic #yegtransit
If you’re planning on taking the Street Car down to Fringe, make other plans!
I've been pretty negative about the ets route redesign that happened a couple years ago, but today I discovered 1 (one) thing that it improved: there's now finally a bus route that connects the "good" part of downtown to the "good" part of Whyte Ave more or less directly (the 701).
Previously you could only really get from the railtown park part of downtown to the university side of Whyte Ave.