David Block-Schachter·Jan 19, 2019Open payments will bankrupt public transit and it’s still a good ideaA suitably alarmist headlineA response icon2A response icon2
David Block-Schachter·Jan 15, 2019Buses need infrastructure tooDecades before Bridj and Chariot (and Leap and MagicBus and …), there was a new technology that was so flexible it was going to…
David Block-Schachter·Jan 14, 2019A primer for recruiting for innovation type jobs in governmentLet’s make the implicit compact explicit.
David Block-Schachter·Jan 12, 2019#microtransit is dead; long live micro transitI’m gloriously unemployed for a brief moment so I’m going to share my unsolicited Chariot hot take.
David Block-Schachter·Oct 4, 2018The T just launched improved bus predictionsLast week I wrote a post about how we had selected Swiftly to be our provider for our much improved bus predictions, and that they’d be…
David Block-Schachter·Sep 24, 2018Better bus predictions (a lot better)The story of how we moved from 75% accuracy to 84% accuracyA response icon3A response icon3
David Block-Schachter·Jun 4, 2018We’re making real-time bus locations more “real”Let’s begin with a little MBTA history.
David Block-Schachter·Apr 2, 2018We are not the MBTA you think we are: MBTA Customer Technology at NewCo BostonHow do you innovate in a government agency heavy on infrastructure?
David Block-Schachter·Apr 11, 2016Expectations for mass transit have changed and the T should too.If you hadn’t heard, the MBTA is an old system. We like to brag we’re the oldest subway in the US. The city of Boston grew around us. And…
