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To make the current situation with chronically late trains worse there is no way to know when the next train is coming until you have paid for a fare and are st

To make the current situation with chronically late trains worse there is no way to know when the next train is coming until you have paid for a fare and are standing down on the platform. Little good it does you then to find out that next train is not for 12 or 15 minutes. SO MUCH THIS. Fortunately, because the MTA has exposed the live schedule data, Google Maps lets you check this (sadly, it isn't 100% reliable: oftentimes a train will claim to have arrived somewhere, or even be departing from a station, while it's still getting there).

bogomipz 9y ago
>"Fortunately, because the MTA has exposed the live schedule data, Google Maps lets you check this (sadly, it isn't 100% reliable: oftentimes a train will claim to have arrived somewhere, or even be departing from a station, while it's still getting there)." Yes and the issue is that the MTA doesn't make the service disruption data available. See: https://medium.com/transit-app/how-were-bringing-real-time-countdowns-to-nyc-s-lettered-lines-482d3b8f9899 https://medium.com/transit-app/how-were-bringing-real-time-c... Why wouldn't you make this data available? Why stop short? Most likely because it would expose just how many unplanned maintenance disruptions there actually are.
- tacostakohashi 9y ago
  For much the same reasons as not operating all the trains on your schedule, I guess - apathy, incompetence, mismanagement, under-resourcing, etc. It seems odd to expect a transit agency that isn't good at operating trains to be great at providing data.