Comments on: On Bart signs

By: mrjones

mrjones — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:02:13 +0000

In reply to wangston. Huh who knew BART had an (unofficial) blog! Also, I found a picture on flickr that is hi-res enough to count the LEDs. With the resolution of the sign, we could propose a different arrangement that would actually fit. Stay tuned!

By: wangston

wangston — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:52:36 +0000

here’s the offical bart.gov post:

http://sfbart.posterous.com/new-bike-info-added-to-electronic-platform-si

By: mrjones

mrjones — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:45:59 +0000

In reply to Justin.

Wangston and Justin – Good point about the compressing of data. My sweetie also pointed out that the second time is good during rush hour. If the train is packed silly, you know how long ’til the next, less crowded train will be, like Justin said.

My main point is that I want to know when the next train is, always.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:19:20 +0000

I think the 2nd time could be useful if the first train is super crowded you can decide how long it is worth waiting to be on a train that might or might not have a bit more breathing room.

By: wangston

wangston — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:47:18 +0000

hmm. i felt that the move to “Fremont 1min, 21min” was an improvement – even though the second time is sort of useless, they *used* to scroll those two data points as two separate lines.

so, maybe you’re at montgomery and you want to go to richmond, sometimes you’d see a scroll like this:

fremont 1 min
pittsburgh 4 min
fremont 5 min
dublin 6 min
fremont 7 min
pittsburgh 9 min
richmond 15 min

you had to wait a long time to get info on your train. lame! now you have to wait for at most 4 lines to scroll to see your train, since they’ve compressed the time display

unless there’s something better that they could do with the space used up by the second ETA, i’m not sure it’s worth changing it…

next train always on the bottom is a fantastic idea and/or a scroller on the bottom with next train always. damn straight.