Serving a 5 mile corridor of Saint Paul along 94, what this rider didn't see were all the stops between Woodbury and downtown. The BRT lines cover 60,000 boardings monthly, fully 40,000 on the Gold Line alone.

Also reported was a marked increase of the 94 Express bus, showing that connections improved. People want to travel from Minneapolis to St Paul quicker, and on #publictransit.

The Gold Line has excelled. This "blind" rider identified the elephant's trunk as a snake.

Interestingly enough, someone tried to adapt Shavian for use with Esperanto, dropping some letters and swapping others based on only what I can presume is artistic difference.

I think the choices are odd if not outright confusing. Rather than develop new letters for unique sounds/vowels, they actively swapped the sounds of some letters and dropped others.

If you're curious: https://kovro.heliohost.org/eo/tools/Sxava/sxava.html

I've been exploring the space of functional, phonemic Shavian alphabets and struggle to find value in it beyond mere curiosity.

In print and in Unicode fonts, they work well and have cross-platform, keyboard support. They could serve as a simple cyphertext for notebook journaling or penpal exchange; obscurity over security.

Having been designed to actively discourage cursive connectors, they're not elegant or artful.

With practical use, perhaps I'll change my mind.