Tom Lehman has a very slick, fast, and easy-to-use Metro-North scheduling web app at BetterMetroNorth.com.

Check it out!

Some people might ask me – Chris, you have your web Metro-North Schedules, and your own Metro-North Scheduling app – why draw attention to competition?

Well, because most of us mobile developers don’t think in those terms – that’s MTA-think.

In the past month I have had conversations with many public transit mobile developers, I share my information, ideas, and discussions with MTA with them, and them with me.

Most of us never expect to ‘get rich’ off of our transit schedules. Many of us are just passenger/developers who were like ‘for christ’s sakes, it would be so easy to make an app that would make reading the schedule 100X easier – WHY has MTA not done this?’ – and did it ourselves for our own use.

Most of us would like nothing more than for MTA to make the data for FREE ONLINE, so that ANYONE can make Metro-North apps and the market could be flooded with great ideas and competition that create truly amazing ones.

Nice work Tom!