New York regional transit online, eventually
The New York Times has an article today about the long overdue trips123.com web site, which has traffic and transit info for the New York metropolitan region - including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. It also has a transit trip planner for the region. The article gives a glimpse of how hard it is to get anything done among the fragmented transportation agencies of the region, especially with a bit of bad luck mixed in.
The web site is okay, the transit trip planner is a bit clunky and needs a lot of help finding correct addresses, but hopefully that will be improved with time. The transit status is pretty useful, easily listing current conditions by line, and allowing you to look up scheduled maintenance and construction. The other site mentioned in the article, hopstop.com, has a bit better of in interface - I like the walking instructions with times - but its coverage, as mentioned in the article, is not as extensive.
If you would like to see a great example of how to do something like this, check out the San Francisco Bay area transit.511.org site.
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csa | 12:47 PM |
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