Comments on: Find Washington DC Metro Times via SMS

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[...] internet access!). I have separate favorite links for the stations I use most often (thanks to Justin Thorp for this, though it works just fine without an [...]

By: Zvi Band

Zvi Band — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:25:19 +0000

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!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:41:43 +0000

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.

By: Peter Corbett

Peter Corbett — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:00:59 +0000

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