MTA subway status app

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  • ctcliff0

    As a technologist, I can appreciate the simplicity of a purely text/HTML based solution (also keeps the weight down), but I'm wondering if that will resonate with normal people. Would it benefit from more expressive illustration?

    Also, the face metaphor isn't universal. It starts to break down if you enter more than 3 trains (do people actually make 3 transfers?) and a single route sorta gives you a cyclops looking thing...

    • 3 transfers is quite normal. 7>E>R trains for mejetSkii
    • sometimes, 7>E>N>RjetSkii

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