A unified fare payment medium will go a long way in unifying the Bay Area’s highly fragmented, 28-agency transit system. From a user perspective, needing to know fare rules and exact change for multiple transit systems makes the daily commute tricky and makes non-routine transit trips to new areas an exercise in information systems research. [...]
To our loyal blog readers – this isn’t quite ready for production, but I wanted to explore BART’s new open data feed and do something fun. Comments, thoughts, appreciated. A few known issues: We’re still working on getting the real time feed up. Soon. The design isn’t great. We’ll be rolling out new ways to [...]
Via TechCrunch: Apple may be known for its advertising prowess, but this little marketing coup is going to go down as one of the most hilarious ad placements in recent history. doubleTwist, the company co-founded by renowned software reverse engineer DVD Jon, has managed to place a banner for its product directly next to the [...]
I just saw a very interesting post with scaled maps of major subway/metro systems of the world over at fakeisthenewreal.com. BART appears to be the largest system in the world by reach. BART is sort of a hybrid between a traditional metro system and a commuter rail system. I’m never sure if its the best [...]
Stop the presses! BART is now twittering. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t know that you could ride the train all the way to Black Rock City.
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