Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 13h23 riders on this trip on the 1 to Douglas so far as it drops from half hourly to hourly. The demand is so clearly here for better service but the lack of operators is a major problem 110
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 13hNeed a lot more housing to support that (not that it isn’t needed!) 020
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 13h2 million riders a year which is what I think in an ~unconstrained environment for operators and a restructured system would be 62.5 trips per capita 000
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 13h😂 even my most optimistic take on Juneau is an average of about 10k (maybe peaking at 12k) riders a day on weekdays across all lines 200
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 14hHere for an Alaskan rural transit conference and genuinely meeting peers is just both so fun and important. (While my wife is also at a museum conference here too which is serendipitous) 110
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My favorite part of this ride today is actually just how many *intermediate* stops people are riding between on the inner Eastern Route towns today. Boston is always going to be a big draw but with frequency increases it is those intermediate journeys that will climb the most as a % I believe 000
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Special weekend service goes into effect this week to deal with the crowding at Salem the whole month. It doesn’t apply to Halloween itself so I assume that there will be an additional supplemental for that but I don’t know cdn.mbta.com/sites/defaul...cdn.mbta.com 100
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Probably 80-90 people got on my inbound Eastern Route train at Beverly today and Salem was extremely busy too (Halloween parade is today) but lots of commuters too as well as those going to events. Always extremely nice to see the bidirectional traffic on this line and mostly half hourly service 120
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That is unsurprising and a good note. I do plan on going there someday, maybe sooner rather than later if we end up doing the ALCAN next year 110
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Chinese is sadly only ok in Sitka as well although I had pretty good Chinese in both Utqiagvik (+Japanese/korean) and Nome (Korean and Vietnamese at a woman’s house restaurant !!! maps.app.goo.gl/oYGfoNHYakEE...)maps.app.goo.gl 110
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That’s basically all correct. Filipino’s make up almost 10% of the population in Sitka and though there are no sit down restaurants there are food stands and grocery stores where those staples are prepared everyday. Pub food, seafood as well. Thai food is pretty ubiquitous everywhere but Sitka 😭 110
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oh we actually have a phenomenally good pizza place (Campfire Kitchen) and some others that are fine. You can in fact get salmon on virtually anything 😂. Particularly as someone often working 10-13 hours without a real break though there is a particular fast casual niche that would be super useful 130
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Genuinely miss actually good Asian food the most but particularly given my lifestyle as a bus driver in small town Alaska going from transit to tours all through the summer I do feel the absence of your chipotle/cava/sweetgreen etc acutely 130
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Returning to the cuisine of my people now that I’m on the east coast for a hot minute: fast casual bowls 🙏 130
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The weird thing is that the area pre-security is relatively nice and spacious and then post-security just sucks???? 010
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Had no idea the Montgomery museum of fine arts had such opinions 😉 020
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Would be nice to not have a completely full flights, alas not today with Alaska Airlines. Genuinely the frequencies between Seattle and NYC/BOS need to be increased 000
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Last cruise ship of the year in Sitka today was her sister ship the Eurodam 020
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 30/09/20264 days on the east coast, then Juneau for a week for a conference, 4 days back in Sitka and then 11 days bouncing from DC to NYC and Boston. Truly what is my life this next month 110
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Doing the SIT-JNU-KTN-SEA-BOS trip for the first of 3x before the end of the year and I can’t say I’m going to enjoy any of them. Leaving at the end of cruise ship season (+ seafood processors sending their seasonal workers home) to go to a wedding was also certainly a choice on my part 140
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Once again doing the transfer/morning pulse out of Juneau Airport with 4 completely full flights going out more or less simultaneously. 600 people departing at once definitely tests the capacity of this little airport and if they tried to use the 5th gate available it feels like it would implode 270
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Innotrans has a ton of relevance for bus systems too and to say that it doesn’t is just false and to show that you don’t actually know the breadth of what exists there. This person may be a bad board member but this does not seem like a good criticism frankly 010
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Philadelphia is the greatest city in the world 030
Reposted by Ryan Keefemichael (he/him) @micfrom215.gobirds.online · 20/09/2026L'Enfant Plaza in Washington DC. I love the Metro's waffles 0282
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This would be my recommendation as well. Extremely nice building to hang in and read 020
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This happens often in SE Alaska. It’s an expensive ride for the folks that need the help 140
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Was wondering what this Chinook was doing earlier in Sitka but thanks to the town fb group we finally have the wreckage of the USCG helicopter off Harbor Mountain 151
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Alaska has gotten… better. I no longer get kicked out every single time I try to sign in but still far from good 010
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026(Unless I go to the Women’s World Cup next year 🤔) 020
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It’s been a decade since I went to the US Open and I should change that next year 100
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Voter turnout more than doubled in Sitka between ‘24 and ‘26 primaries though 👀 (was still lower than overall in the state) 010
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I’m very curious to see what the enthusiasm is like for the midterms when it comes to the general election because so far we have seen an increase in participation (18% vs 22.2%) which I would have expected to come from Dem enthusiasm and it just did not 100
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Delving into the Alaska Senate primary results and comparing them to the 2024 House primary and I’m definitely a little more concerned for Peltola although running against an incumbent is definitely a different thing too 120
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The Silver Line end to end is pretty comparable to the average speed you are getting for the New Haven Line from GCT to Southport even at peak 100
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I will say that the connection to FLL feels tenuous when I’ve used it but that’s not because of tri-rail itself 010
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Oh it closed… (staff had an issue with being racist so 😬) 240
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Yeah, I wouldn’t bother with that one though it’s not great and it’s a bit of a pain on transit to get there 140
Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Just go do things off the Mall and you’ll be fine 291
