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Transit
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Fran Sans: typeface from San Francisco's Muni Breda displays
The story behind Fran Sans, a typeface Emily Sneddon created from the LCD destination displays on San Francisco's Muni Breda light rail cars. An archival and design project born from a 3x5-grid modular letter system made for sufficiency, not style.
How BART on the Golden Gate Bridge Died
An investigation into why BART never crossed the Golden Gate Bridge — exploring the political and engineering decisions that shaped Bay Area transit for decades. A case study in infrastructure decisions and their long-term consequences.
Crunching NYC Subway Data: A New Yorker's Busiest Stations
A data analysis post combining Node.js and SQL to parse MTA turnstile data and identify New York City's busiest subway stations. An early example of civic data journalism: public transit data as a lens on urban density and movement.
Inequality & Mass Transit in the Bay Area
Dan Grover's interactive data visualization showing how transit access in the Bay Area correlates with income and geography — a 2013 example of civic data journalism that made structural inequality legible through maps and charts.