Over the last 5 years the MTA has slowly installed countdown clocks in every station, and made the data that powers the countdown clocks available on their website, in apps, and as data online. For many years the only line that had even countdown clocks in stations was the L, which seems to be the line the MTA tries out new technology on, likely because it never shares tracks with any other line.
I’m not sure I will ever finish this project to a state that would look great on a subway station tv, or be useful, but I do want to point out The Weekendest by Sunny Ng (who also made goodservice.io), which is a great take on the concept, and handles some of the challenges of this kind of project much better than the MTA map does.įor a long time the NYC Subway was almost completely lacking in real-time data. A big factor in the time the project has taken is some of the quirks in working with MTA data, which based on some of the bugs I’ve seen in the "official" version I’d say the team working on that version had to grapple with as well. Over the past few weeks at RC the subway map has been my main focus, which is longer than I expected the project to take (and though I have a prototype, I wouldn’t say I’m close to “done”). Subway station TV (This is not a good photo, but it’s hard to take a picture of a screen underground)
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