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In recent weeks (and overall for the past few years) the MTA has been boasting their intent to give us the riders of New York's subway the same privilege that London and Tokyo subway riders have had for a decade...
Up to date real-time schedules of train arrivals.
(*On the rest of the system, the L train was blessed with digital schedules years ago.)
Well the LED screens have been bolted in place at a number of locales throughout the system, and as I ambled toward the turnstile even in pre-caffeine mode I couldn't miss the green and orange glow of progress staring down on me.
As the pics show the schedules are up, and at least today in the Franklin IRT station (yeh IRT) they were very accurate.
I find it hard to think a coincidence is the reason the schedules are up or that some last bit of needed technology was finally delivered making this all possible as a person could speculate. Instead I do wonder if after years of waiting and months of these screens already being installed but not active, the schedules coming online was simply the result of the MTA trying to deflect from the flack they are getting over having no attendants or working cameras in many stations throughout the system (half the cameras in the NYC subway don't work according to MTA) especially in the wake of the stabbing murders that happened on a Downtown 2 Train at the Christopher Street station last week and the Moscow subway bombing this week.
Yeah! (Yawn) I wd be impressd w how they blew the budget on this if it provided real-time news n weather updates via PATH.
ReplyDeletePath doesnt provide realtime train arrivals, just the expected schedule. And the news and weather actually come from from an outside service which is easier to deliver to Path since they have little more than 10% of the amount of stations that NYC MTA has. Just so you knows...
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