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Realtime BART Arrival Display

https://filbot.com/real-time-bart-display/
84•Jadrago•3h ago

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kleiba•2h ago
This should be a commercial product.
jo-m•2h ago
There a similar one, but it's the Swiss public transport system: https://tramli.ch/
FinnKuhn•1h ago
I love that they are also imitating the real sign desing just like OP.
croisillon•1h ago
i had to look it up: Vienna too https://straba.at/
spankalee•2h ago
BART has a really good merch store. They should totally sell this on there: https://www.railgoods.com/
marinhero•2h ago
What a great thing you built!
rafaele•2h ago
Cool! Hey I have a feature request: Could you add the robotic voices?

https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2009/news20090309

jrockway•2h ago
I love how long the terrible speech synthesis on BART lasted. I don't mean this in a negative way at all. BART was so state of the art when it was built, that it still feels like the future today. They did a good job on ... everything.

Fun link. I saw this article and immediately thought "I need to go find the voice" and this is exactly what I was looking for.

p0w3n3d•2h ago
In my case my nostalgia is tied to the bubbly incoherent voice that says (in astonishingly clear manner) what train arrives first and then proceeds to say which platform and which track, which is so indistinguishable that you never know where to run to (before we had BARTs in the underground passage we used to check all the platforms, because there might have been a change)
dddw•2h ago
An idea well executed! tips hat
BoredPositron•2h ago
Love it and I am glad the data is available to make little projects like this. You need to work with more heat or wetting when soldering though.
zkmon•2h ago
Cool project and very nicely done!! claps.

You know what, I used to plan my leaving from home based on the timings at the station, but soon I realized that it is not worth it. It is not because trains are not sticking to the time table. Just randomly starting at your own comfort eliminates the anxiety that comes with planning. Your average wait time might increase to half of the interval between the trains, but that would be an increase of only a few minutes for mornings, in return for never bothering to check time again.

lanyard-textile•1h ago
Agreed. It’s honestly not that long of a wait at most stations.
stevekemp•1h ago
I built a small hardware device to show the departure time of the tram next to my house, because here in Finland it gets cold in winter.

Mostly the winter isn't super-cold, something like -10°C/14°F, but there are weeks where it will be -20°C/-4°F and then there's a big difference between waiting at the tram stop for 1 minute or 7 minutes.

rsynnott•2m ago
I look when getting a bus/train if the frequency is less than ~one every ten minutes. I never look for trams (those are ~always headway <10 mins for the routes I use).
ThrowawayTestr•57m ago
Very cute, I love it.
velvet_thunderr•32m ago
This is such a cool thing you've built! Must add a super cool vibe to the room too!
RoryH•8m ago
Thank you for the inspiration from you nice and simple real-time API. I made a pass a few years ago on digesting similar GTFS data and you've made me realise how much simpler it could be! :-)

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