RedPost

Connections is a monthly TV show CTA puts together. Last month, they highlighted the RedPost/WPB installation of 13 signs around the Wicker Park Bucktown neighborhood in Chicago. Check it out:

Full disclosure: I don’t have explicit permission to post this on Youtube, so it may not be available for long. You can view the full episode here on CTA’s site. The WPB part starts around minute 9.

The WPB project was also discussed in an article at the Boston Hub, reporting on an MBTA (the Boston equivalent of the CTA) meeting discussing the MBTA’s efforts to open data feeds to the public. Boston apparently found out about RedPost/WPB through a conference in Colorado where the CTA discussed the project:

Chris Dempsey, a MassDOT developer, gave an example of a non-iPhone application: The Chamber of Commerce in Wicker Park, a Chicgao neighborhood, is installing flatscreen monitors in local businesses to display bus-arrival information. The screens help customers time their visits and cost a fraction of what it would cost a transit agency to install outdoor signs – because the signs don’t have to be “sailor proofed” or protected against sailors whaling on it – he said.

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