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Thu 21 Feb 2008

One-Stop Schedule Shopping at Station Stops (That’s a Mouthful!)

Posted by TJ under Big Board, MTA
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Our Metro-North blogging brethren StationStops.com has retooled its schedules page, putting all the stations on a single screen. In short, you can do with one click on StationStops what takes about a half-dozen clicks and some scrolling on the MTA page, and as StationStops points out, you can’t bookmark the MTA Schedules page.

The new page also offers easy access to the real-time Metro-North Big Board, which the MTA site makes a point of burying.

 

Tue 13 Nov 2007

The Big Board Rendered Small

Posted by TJ under Big Board, G. Francis
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We’re not big on repurposing content here at Trainjotting, but we’re bringing this back by popular demand. It’s compliments of G. Francis, who found out that the MTA had buried a real-time Web version of the Big Board–the Departures board in Grand Central–on its Website.

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The post first ran in April, when Trainjotting readership was me, Mom and G. Francis. You’ll find the digital Big Board link here.

 Bookmark this baby, or download it to your Crackberry, and you’ll never find yourself peering through commuters’ heads at the TV screen to find your track number.