Now that the legal bru-ha-ha between StationStops and MTA has blown over, and MTA seems to be making significant gestures to opening up their data, I want to give a very special and overdue shout-out to some great people behind the scenes who supported StationStops.
First and foremost is the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic [...]

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New York City Councilwoman Gale Brewer Chairs the Technology in Government Committee, and has sent a letter to MTA interim CEO Helena Williams regarding MTA’s current data policies.
In the letter, Brewer suggests that MTA operational data be “wholly in the public domain”, available online, using standard data transit protocols provided by Google, and be [...]

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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 [...]

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