On transport
Oct. 2nd, 2010 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnMuch faster than I thought they would, the MBTA managed to release the real-time data for their trains yesterday, so Track The T now supports the red, orange and blue lines. I've been getting more and more emails about the service - it looks like there are about five hundred regular users of it now.
Unfortunately the green line (semi-subway tram things from about the 18th century) is more problematic for them, because they don't really... know where any of those things are at any point, and all communciation with them is done by radio. It's a vicious cycle of the system being too appalling to be able to support predictions, and predictions being the most vital to that track for exactly the same reason.
I also meant to mention that when I was taking my parents back from the airport, I saw something on the touristy adverts that you get relentlessly played through a television screen at the back of the taxis here - they had a list of famous authors that were born in Boston, and included Robin Cook, the American thriller writer. But someone had just typed his name into Google Image Search and picked the first decent-looking photo, and had therefore illustrated the list with a picture of our Robin Cook, the garden gnome, instead.
That's about where my life's interests lie at the moment.
Unfortunately the green line (semi-subway tram things from about the 18th century) is more problematic for them, because they don't really... know where any of those things are at any point, and all communciation with them is done by radio. It's a vicious cycle of the system being too appalling to be able to support predictions, and predictions being the most vital to that track for exactly the same reason.
I also meant to mention that when I was taking my parents back from the airport, I saw something on the touristy adverts that you get relentlessly played through a television screen at the back of the taxis here - they had a list of famous authors that were born in Boston, and included Robin Cook, the American thriller writer. But someone had just typed his name into Google Image Search and picked the first decent-looking photo, and had therefore illustrated the list with a picture of our Robin Cook, the garden gnome, instead.
That's about where my life's interests lie at the moment.
