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Can DIY Work Where the MTA Failed?

Submitted by Anthony Townsend on 30 January 2009 - 12:30am to Transportation Informatics.

Well, its official. The NYC Transit has abandoned its effort to do real-time bus tracking for the second time.

Can we come up with a DIY solution that tries to address this?

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/93085/mta-pulls-the-plug-on-bus-t...

30 Jan03:21

re: real time bus tracking

By John Geraci

Such a good question, and so timely, that I decided to make it the DIYcity Challenge #3.

See http://diycity.org/discussions/diycity-challenge-3 for details.

19 Apr05:14

Smart-City NYC

By reconfigure

I recently attended the Open Everything NYC sessions at UNICEF and was told about this site.

Last year, a piece of writing of mine on the NYC subway was published (http://smart-city.re-configure.org) entitled "Creating Communities of Communications and Foreknowledge." It relates to the real-time bus service alert idea, and does mention a bus stop concept out of Spain

Feedback on the writing from people here would be cool/appreciated.

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22 May20:30

(Bus Service Link) "Where is your bus?"

By reconfigure

Not for NYC, but http://onebusaway.org is for Seattle...and this directory has various other sms services for bus location info for other city areas and college campuses
http://www.textmarks.com/dir

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