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That's a surprisingly open approach from a governmental agency. Most similar efforts seem half-hearted at best. I wonder what makes them different.
by supahfly_remix 17y ago
That's a surprisingly open approach from a governmental agency. Most similar efforts seem half-hearted at best. I wonder what makes them different.
- pmjordan 17y agoAll it takes is one enlightened person who is persistent enough.
- dnsworks 17y agoMassive budget deficits, gross mis-management, fraud, MURDER, etc have all come together to ruin BART's reputation and make them an embarrassment to California government. This is just another attempt at fixing their ruined image until the next scandal.
- pvg 17y agoProbably most of the credit goes to the people involved in the project and their ability to champion their cause and provide these services, straightforward documentation that looks like it's written for humans by humans, etc. Another part of it might be that BART has been highly automated and computerized since its design and inception so the data they offer has been available in some machine format or another for a long time. I remember there were a couple Macs with atrocious screen burn-in displaying all sorts of real-time info from the inside of the Berkeley Shattuck Ave Station Agent's fish-bowl in the early 90s - if you could hook it up to a Mac then, it seems natural you can offer it over the Web today.
- madh 17y agoBART is definitely very automated. The 'drivers' don't drive; they mostly operate the doors. I've noticed that over the past year+ that BART has become very cognizant of current technologies. They are surprising active online: - Twitter (http://twitter.com/sfbart http://twitter.com/sfbart) - Posterous (http://sfbart.posterous.com/ http://sfbart.posterous.com/) - Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/bartsf http://www.facebook.com/bartsf) - FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/sfbart http://friendfeed.com/sfbart) Whoever is running the show is doing a great job.