In response to new CEO Jay Walder’s call for real-time train information on the transit system, an L station and the Metro-North mobile app have both dipped their toes into telling users where trains are in realtime.
If you select the ‘Metro-North TrainTime‘ link from the MTA mobile site’s homepage, you will be able to see, [...]

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MTA has announced that there will be changes to the Metro-North schedule effective Sunday.
40 trains have been added to the New Haven Line schedule to accommodate holiday shoppers.
The Harlem Line is also adding a special shoppers train on Sunday.
Also on the New Haven Line:
In the AM Peak, the 8:14 AM train from New Haven will [...]

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Couldn’t come at a better time.
MBTA has become the 3rd largest transit organization to make its scheduling data free to developers in the industry-standard Google Transit Feed Specification (GTFS).
What does this mean?
Well, instead of paying lawyers to surf the internet all day to find transit developers to call and threaten with false copyright claims [...]

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