Welcome to The Weekly Journey - your two-minute journey through the world of mobility and beyond. Use it to stay informed, find a new go-to source, or just have a peek inside how we think. Brought to you by the team at Journey.

✨ Transit Rider Experience: UCLA reports findings from the first few years of LA Metro’s Transit Ambassador program. TransLink launched their Customer Experience Action Plan.

🚏 Bus Stops: New York MTA’s Automated Camera Enforcement program has reduced blocked bus stops by 40% - plus the number of tickets issued has declined significantly, suggesting drivers are quickly adjusting their behavior.

🚉 Station Access: BART just published the latest update to their Station Profile Study, which documents how people access rail stations throughout the Bay Area. This is a great resource for folks working on TOD policies, plans, and projects. We’d love to see more agencies create similar datasets (which BART has published since 1973!).

🏘️ Housing: Smart Cities Dive reports on Chicago’s Missing Middle Housing Initiative - make sure to click through the links in the article for more details.

Journey transit practice lead Dan Berez and NYC transit legend Larry Gould will share best practices for transit at stadiums and megaevents at this month’s ACT TDM for Events Monthly Roundtable on Wed, Jan 28 at 1-2 EST. Their conversation is free for ACT members. We’ll post highlights in an upcoming newsletter as well!

Lauren hosts the Association for Commuter Transportation Book Club. On February 4th at 2 PM eastern, the book club will host Ruth Miller of Jawnt to discuss The Smart Enough City by Ben Green. Ruth will explore how TDM professionals can thoughtfully navigate both the promises and the limitations of smart city technologies. ACT members, feel free to join whether or not you get a chance to read the book! Not an ACT member but curious? Reach out to Journey as we often can offer a couple of comp entries to our partners.

Lauren co-hosts the Chicago City Builders Book Club with our friends at Arup. The book club is diving into the Chicago classic, Nature’s Metropolis by William Cronon, across their next three meetings. Join them for their upcoming discussions on: