Following up the surprising success of my first MBTA visualization, I made a new version that adds the commuter rail lines. This does have the unfortunate effect of squishing the system’s rapid transit lines because I’m not distorting the distances in any way. I also reduced the size of the markers, perhaps too small for viewing at youtube resolution unless viewed at full screen.
Also, for Frank and Elias, I made the length of the video shorter, enlarged the numbers, and added a little visualization showing active trips sampled at 5-minute intervals with a you are here indicator to give viewers perspective on how busy the system is at that moment relative to the whole day.