Find Washington DC Metro Times via SMS

2007 October 28

by Justin Thorp

Washington DC programming rockstar Zvi Band has just launched a cool new Web app called Metro Times. It allows you to send a text message (SMS) with the name of a metro station to an address and it will send back to you the times of the upcoming trains. It’s awesome.

What’d make this app even better is if it were a mobile web app and not just for SMS.

This site provides essentially the same content as the iPhone Web app Meenster. Metro Times is great for those who are iPhone-less.

from → Mobile, Washington DC, Web, Web Applications

1. 2007 October 28

   Peter Corbett permalink

   This is cool. Bart Solowiej built a similar tool a little while back: http://www.traincheck.com

   Zvi, you should connect with Bart as i’m sure you two will have something to talk about. facebook him and say Corbett gave you a heads up to reach out.

   Peter Corbett
2. 2007 October 29

   Tom permalink

   Nice, but yeah, traincheck’s been offering SMS->email train times for a while. My LastCall service for DCist did the same through an all-SMS interface, although I had to shut it down after a while. It should be relaunching as a Twitter bot in the next week or two, though.

   Now if WMATA would just provide a bus-location API.
3. 2007 October 30

   Zvi Band permalink

   Thanks guys – I actually found out about TrainCheck long after initially writing metro times. Tom, I also saw LastCall, I’m sorry you had to shut it down!

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