MTA subway status app
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- ctcliff0
Thanks for the feedback. I want to elaborate on a couple of your points.
I, and I presume a lot of other people, tend to ride the same trains over and over. If there is an outage, I probably won't find out about it until I'm on the platform. I can check the status before I leave the house on mta.info, but their visualization is cluttered and not customizable. This goal of this app is to provide a quick yes/no visualization of only the trains I care about.
The data is provided by the MTA and has some limitations. One, it's grouped by color rather than individual train, so you can't really look up info on the "A", only the "ACE." The question mark is there to give the full text explanation (like you would see on an poster on the subway platform).
Also, there would be a project homepage with an explanation of the app and how to use.
Agree this is kind of a niche solution, but I think it's an improvement on the existing notification system. Any thoughts?
Also, if you're making that many transfers, you should consider moving: