May 15, 2013

Huffington Post Features Class Project Visualizing SF Transit History

From The Huffington Post

San Francisco Transit History: Website Explains Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Muni

By Aaron Sankin

In the nearly century and a half since San Francisco's first cable car completed its inaugural run down Clay Street, the city's public transit system has become as embedded in San Francisco's very fabric as sourdough bread, the Golden Gate Bridge or the omnipresent blanket of fog.

Even so, most San Franciscans' knowledge of what famed San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen termed the "Muniserable Railway" is limited to the understanding that if you're attempting to board a downtown-bound 21 bus on a rainy weekend morning in Hayes Valley you're gonna' have a bad time.

To rectify this situation, and give Friscophiles their daily dose of SF history porn, a trio of local designers have created San Francisco Transit History--an interactive website that details every major development in the history of the city's public transportation network with a bevy of photos....

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The “San Francisco Transit History” site was created by School of Information master’s students Fred Chasen, Raymon Sutedjo-The, and Charles Wang as the final project for the course Info 247. Information Visualization.

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