Do you live in Portland? Do you ride the bus? Need to know when the next bus is going to arrive at your stop? Have an iPhone? Then I have an app for YOU!
Trimet Tracker allows you find any stop and get upcoming arrival times. Now you can also get any detour information Trimet makes available from it’s awesome API, and you can now map your stop with the build in iPhone Google Maps app.
I also fixed a few bugs, although there is one weird thing with the Streetcar stops (they don’t show arrivals for some reason). I sent an e-mail to Trimet to see what’s up.
Check it out: http://trimet.onmyiphone.net/
UPDATE: Heard back from Trimet, here’s what they have to say about the Streetcar times:
Unlike the rest of our system, for Portland Street Car arrivals we retrieve the results from nextbus.com. Since their permission for use is more restrictive than ours we are unable to reproduce their results on our web service.
Bummer. Looks like you folks looking for Streetcar times will have to rely on the call-in service and the reader boards at the stops.
I’ve been having a problem with this, so I thought perhaps it wasn’t being looked at anymore; but since it works by clicking new, I think it’s probably just me (any way to clear cookies on an iPhone?).
On the homepage I get a traceback (Camping Problem!). Since I have to type it out, here’s the exception only:
Markaby::InvalidXhtmlError id `favorite_undefined` already used (id’s[sic] must be unique).
Thanks for making this - I can’t wait to try out the new version.
Ok, found how to clear cookies, and that worked around the problem.
Oh, that explains why I was never getting streetcar times on TriMet Tracker when I was in town–it’s a shame. BTW, I’d like to invite you to join the Transit Developers mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/transit-developers
Any chance you can fix or compensate for the time on onmyiphone.com being 3 minutes slow? It throws all of the estimated wait times off. Thanks
I have a suggestion for an improvement. Is there any way to get the number pad keyboard to show up instead of the alphabetical keyboard? Since I never type words into the “Bus ID” field, it’s an annoyance (albeit a minor one) to have to switch to the symbols/number keyboard before typing in a new stop. And the buttons on the number pad keyboard are larger. I’ve noticed that other sites can make that the default keypad when input is strictly numbers.
That aside, thank you thank you thank you for this application. I use it constantly. After Google Reader it’s the second-most bookmark I use daily.