The digital offerings designed to make commuting life easier continue to increase. There’s the Metro-North timetable app over at StationStops.com that the MTA is not all that excited about, and there’s the crowd-sourcing Clever Commute service, where riders share delays and other abnormalities (actually, on the New Haven Line, they’re known as “normalities”) via group emails.
Clever Commute is taking things a step further with a service that emails you the track you should be headed to in Grand Central–and Penn Station, for Jersey and Long Island types–each evening as you leave work.
Clever Commute CEO Josh Crandall says that product is coming out of beta. We’re excited to see how it works, and we will of course report on how well the service works.
Here’s how you sign up:
1. Go to www.clevercommute.com
2. Click on “Find your line”
3. Toward the top right, change “Select provider type” to “Trains (Track Number)”
4. Select “Metro North Track Number Announcements (Beta)” to select your line
5. Enter your sign-up info just as you did when you first joined Clever Commute.