And you are here why?

Remember this transit map that WNYC pulled together in March of 2013? Andrew Hardin, a  graduate student at UC Boulder pulled the data together for San Francisco, Seattle, Boulder, and Denver, and has created the same kind of transit maps for them.  A nice feature here is that you can actually pick the day of the week (yeah boyo, Sunday =/= Monday!) Check it out below! (Visualization below, image above)

It turns out that the US Census does something called the American Community Survey , which provides statistics on all sorts of stuff for pretty much every community in the US (yes. Including Tuscaloosa) One of these is the " Out of State and Long Commutes " survey, which has such delightful factoids as 23.0 percent of workers with long commutes (60 minutes or more) use public transit, compared with 5.3 percent for all workers. Only 61.1 percent of workers with long commutes drove to work alone, compared with 79.9 percent for all workers who worked outside the home. Anyhow, WNYC took this data and mapped it for NYC (well, d-uh), and the results are below.  The bottom line? Manhattan is - not surprisingly - extraordinarily commuter friendly.  I suspect mass-transit :-) c

Trulia has really managed to hit one out of the park here - they've put together heat maps for commute times for various cities around the country.  You can (kinda) thank Google for this - Trulia used the GTFS spec that they popularized as well as OpenStreetMap to put together this awesome chunk of awesomeness.  Basically, put in your city, and get a heat map that shows you commute times (driving as well as mass transit) within 15 minutes, 27 minutes, or heck, whatever you move the slider around to. Oh, all the other Trulia goodies are there too, viz., School ratings, Crimes, etc. Go check it out! (Note - the above is an image. Go to the Trulia location! )