{"id":981,"date":"2014-10-26T22:27:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T03:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/?p=981"},"modified":"2014-10-26T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T03:27:28","slug":"route-1-bus-stops-in-portland-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/post-7-individual-analysis-of-transect-walk\/route-1-bus-stops-in-portland-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Route #1 Bus Stops in Portland, Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The data that I collected on the transect walk complimented the most beneficial smart city recommendation of a Transportation App that I found from the caf\u00e9 ethnography and the 4 mental maps. Throughout the entire walk along the Route #1 Bus Line in Portland, Alex, Karl, and I only saw 2 route #1 busses. This suggests to me that the busses do not stick to schedule particularly well and that there is no simple or quick way to tell whether a bus will show up or not. In addition, the bus stops are just small yellow signs and it was particularly hard to tell where they were sometimes. Furthermore, when looking at the Portland Bus Routes map, there is no information about where the stops actually are, so unless the passenger already knows where the stops are near their desired location, it is kind of a guessing game that makes using public transportation particularly hard for visiting tourists. Oddly enough, Google Maps contains the information about bus route stops but the public maps in Portland do not. That being said, I think that it would be incredibly beneficial for Portland to firstly create more obvious bus stops and provide more information about where they are located. Secondly, I think that Portland should provide more information about the scheduling and wait times for the buses on each route, as they are often unreliable and late. As discussed in some previous posts, this information could all be incorporated into a public transportation application that residents could check on their computers or phones to see as to what the bus schedules are, how long the delays are for, and where the specific stops are.<\/p>\n

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Pictures of the only information available on the #1 Bus route available at one stop on the route<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Portland City Metro Map of Bus Route #1<\/p>\n

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Google Map of Portland City Bus Route #1 – does not show exact route but shows where the stops are (if you hover your mouse over the bus stop symbols then a window pops up describing which Metro Routes stop there)<\/p>\n

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Transect Walk along public bus Route #1 \u2013 took account of the locations of all bus stops and Route #1 busses that we saw<\/p>\n

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  1. 206 Congress Street<\/li>\n
  2. Congress & Kellog<\/li>\n
  3. Congress & North<\/li>\n
  4. Congress & Lafayette<\/li>\n
  5. Atlantic and Monument<\/li>\n
  6. 27 on Atlantic Street<\/li>\n
  7. Vesper & Eastern Promenade<\/li>\n
  8. 126 Eastern Promenade<\/li>\n
  9. 182 Eastern Promenade<\/li>\n
  10. Turner & Eastern Promenade<\/li>\n
  11. 304 Eastern Promenade<\/li>\n
  12. East End Community School & North Street<\/li>\n
  13. 143 North Street<\/li>\n
  14. North Street & Quebec Street<\/li>\n
  15. Cumberland & North Street<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The data that I collected on the transect walk complimented the most beneficial smart city recommendation of a Transportation App that I found from the caf\u00e9 ethnography and the 4 mental maps. Throughout the entire walk along the Route #1 Bus Line in Portland, Alex, Karl, and I only saw 2 route #1 busses. This … Continue reading Route #1 Bus Stops in Portland, Maine<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-7-individual-analysis-of-transect-walk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p50q0U-fP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies-2430-fall-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}