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Anson Stewart
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Analysis + Research, @conveyal.com | Deputy Director, MIT Transit Lab | Massachusetts / California | Transportation PhD 🚲🚌
#Aurora just north of Boston
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
October 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
People still pouring in to the Boston #NoKings rally. MBTA Red Line inbound is packed even after 1:30.

No Kings. More Trains.
October 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Evergreen post: bad #busbunching on the MBTA Rt 1 bus!

Just miss the two buses that are supposed to come every 8 minutes? Here's a 26 minute wait for the next bunch (of four!)!

🚍🚍 😭 🚍🚍🚍🚍
October 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Minneapolis looking nice
September 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Yearly ritual of the board emerging at TransportationCamp New England #TCNE2025

@jeffkess.com: "This isn't our first rodeo"

bit.ly/tcne2025
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This Saturday at MIT: TransportationCamp! #TCNE25

Unconference (people propose sessions/discussions on the spot) about 🚇🚶✈️⛴️🧑‍🦽🚍🚲🚚

Space still available: www.eventbrite.com/e/transporta...
September 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Correction: didn't try 33L aprch

Other traffic held over South Shore (h/t @flightradar24.com) includes

AA 1074 heard PIREP, broke off saying "this is ridiculous," and was boxed around before being sequenced back in

Pilatus from the Hamptons tried twice, diverted to BED

And BWI-KEF diversion
August 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Tonight's edition of flights I'm glad I'm not on (h/t @jlcidell.bsky.social):

JetBlue 2996 landed on its third attempt at #BOS (22L, 33L, 4R)

Following flights reporting #windshear +30kt/-30kt
August 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Canceled trips are piling up on the #MBTA 77, doubling the scheduled 12 minute intervals 🙃

This @a320lga.bsky.social post comes to mind.
August 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
June 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Back in SEPTA territory.

"The scheduled 7:22 Local to Wawa Station next to arrive on Track 6"

20 years since I first heard this announcement voice!
May 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
New Acela fleet
May 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Just passed NE Regional #173 (originally scheduled to depart BOS 2h20m ahead, actually departed 30m ahead)

Car 82546 has thinly covered "Illinois High Speed Rail: Chicago - St Louis" markings
May 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Originally booked on #137, scheduled to depart BOS at 1:37pm

I arrived at South Station at 1:15pm and saw the previous (#173, sched 11:40 AM) still waiting to board

Calling Amtrak, had to fight automated speech recognition system so long that I missed the chance to take #173 when it left at 1:30pm
May 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Happy Friday from Amtrak Acela #2169 🚄

My original train to Philadelphia was so late that I'm now scheduled to arrive early...
May 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Credit where credit is due, these are solid Red Line headways, as seen in the @mbta.com Go app.
May 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Traffic backed up in the bike lane again while the car lanes sit empty.

Someone should look into why we keep building car lanes.
May 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
E-waste dropoff by e-bike

(or how to avoid the car line at the Zero Waste Arlington Reuse & Recycling Center with a passenger)

♻🔋🚲👶

@americanfietser.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"What if I told you transportation data standards are how we save the world? ... Maybe that's true, maybe it's not"

@plosky.bsky.social @awalkerinla.bsky.social at #DataDonuts

datadonuts.la/event/data-d...
April 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#Easter greetings from the Oaxacan brass band (Banda Juvenil San Andrés Yaa #LosAngeles) at a historically Japanese American Episcopal church in Koreatown

(sound on)

🎷🎺
April 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Ruling ordering Rumeysa Ozturk's return to Vermont cites case from the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans.

As dark as this case seemed up to today, there is hope that justice will prevail.
April 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
April 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Thanks @wandrme.paxex.aero

Reported time at AEX doesn't seem to line up with any commercial arrivals. Closest arrival might be this ICE Air flight: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

But BTV → ? → TOL → AEX seems unlikely?
April 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Sunset over Boston a couple days ago, after a rare (for me) Rwy 32 landing
March 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM