CTA Alerts
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CTA Needs to get All GPS-y
No reason why they can’t publish real-time info on everything.
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CTA Alerts
CTA alerts is a rider-to-rider wireless notification utility that allows riders and Chicago Transit Authority officials to communicate status during service outages. I set up the service in August 2005. It has never gone down. I’d say that less than 3% of the posts are bogus or of the “hey what’s up ya’ll?” nature. Here…
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CTA Alerts Coverage in Today’s Red Eye
I am in San Francisco for the BEA Conference right now (more on that later), but CTA Tattler has a good roundup of links on the current take on the state of communications at the CTA, including the following coverage of CTA Alerts: Locals give you wireless alerts By Kyra KylesRedEyePublished September 19, 2006 Can’t…
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Pinpointing Chicago’s Italian-American Community
Just got this on CTA Alerts: Jul 09 5:51PM Fr: CTA_HQ Due to the World Cup Soccer Celebration, #90 Harlem buses are being temporarily rerouted at Addison and Harlem. Update: here’s the Sun-Times coverage.
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Why The CTA Alerts Isn’t Customized
Splitting up alerts is the most common feature request we’ve gotten from the start. I know why it’s appealing– it would be a cool thing if you could get a simple answer to a simple question: Should I take my normal public transportation route or should I alter it? Should I descened these subway steps…