Mapbox has done so much work in the recent past. Much respect to the team.
Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
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#22Mass transit becomes much more useful if all that waiting could be reduced. Especially when a transfer or two is needed.
If you watch stations with transfers, like Naka-meguro, you’ll see that departures are synchronised, especially for express trains. That transfer looks like this [0] with the Hibiya (grey) line on the left, and Toyoko line on the right. You just need to cross the platform, so the transfer doesn’t take any longer than a regular train stop. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Naka-Meguro_Station_Pla...
My first day commuting on the Tokyo subway the train stopped two stations short of my destination. Everyone got off the train and it was clearly being taken out of service so I also got off. I didn't know why the train was out of service so I went to the map to see what my options were. By the time I figured out that my line ended and I needed to transfer to the train across the platform it was pulling away. I was the only one left on a platform that seconds earlier had what seemed like a thousand people. A few minutes later I caught the next train but it was a briefly terrifying experience.
...and now I want to go back to Japan.
Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
#23Mass transit becomes much more useful if all that waiting could be reduced. Especially when a transfer or two is needed.
The key is to have a regular interval timetable, with "pulses" to allow easy transfers: http://sydneyferry.blogspot.com/2017/09/six-benefits-of-regu... The Swiss are masters of this. I recently had a complicated 4-leg journey from Zurich airport, from a mainline InterCity train to a rack railway up a mountain, and every single transfer was timed at exactly 5 minutes.
In Seattle it helps to tell your bus driver you need to make a connection so they can honk at the bus in front of you to tell them not to pull away.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Frequency is freedom - transit advocates
yep, the Seattle light rail has a much less convenient route for me than the busses, but the the train is so much more frequent (and usually isn't 20 minutes late) that I always go for the train
I live in West Seattle so the light rail rarely works for me, even to the airport. Recently I met some friends in the U District and the train was actually a viable option. I was floored by how convenient it was. I can't wait for the network to expand further. Would be nice if the SoDo station had any kind of weather shelter...
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#25Mass transit becomes much more useful if all that waiting could be reduced. Especially when a transfer or two is needed.
The key is to have a regular interval timetable, with "pulses" to allow easy transfers: http://sydneyferry.blogspot.com/2017/09/six-benefits-of-regu... The Swiss are masters of this. I recently had a complicated 4-leg journey from Zurich airport, from a mainline InterCity train to a rack railway up a mountain, and every single transfer was timed at exactly 5 minutes.
I have never been to Swiss, is every transfer the same difficulty? Having all transfer being exactly the same doesn't make sense to me.
In Japan there is a predefined minimum transfer time between each lines, so the timetable use that to coordinate departure (and if incoming train is late, then the designated connecting train will wait that predefined time for connecting passenger)
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#26Possibly of interest to some - NYC actually has an official live map in beta. https://map.mta.info/
I don't like some of the UI decisions with where it's currently at, primarily not showing the trains and their directions very prominently (the trains are there if you zoom in, but they're just unlabeled rectangles moving on the lines), but it's a start.
It does do a pretty decent job at showing what services are actually operating right now and what stops they're serving, though.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
yep, the Seattle light rail has a much less convenient route for me than the busses, but the the train is so much more frequent (and usually isn't 20 minutes late) that I always go for the train
I live in West Seattle so the light rail rarely works for me, even to the airport. Recently I met some friends in the U District and the train was actually a viable option. I was floored by how convenient it was. I can't wait for the network to expand further. Would be nice if the SoDo station had any kind of weather shelter...
There used to be an express route straight from the junction to SeaTac, but it looks like you have to take line c, transfer, and it takes an hour now. It is too bad, since west Seattle is really close to the airport by car.
I live in Ballard, and we are both waiting until the late 2030s for light rail (at least according to the current schedule).
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#28Pretty old. Guy's been tweeting about it constantly for years.
(2019) maybe?
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21188767
Re: Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
#29Possibly of interest to some - NYC actually has an official live map in beta. https://map.mta.info/ I don't like some of the UI decisions with where it's currently at, primarily not showing the trains and their directions very prominently (the trains are there if you zoom in, but they're just unlabeled rectangles moving on the lines), but it's a start. It does do a pretty decent job at showing what services are actua…
Gah, every map move pushes onto the history stack, terrible.
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#30Very cool, but FYI, this is not a "subway" map. It is a transportation map. Trains, Planes, Monorails. The page's title is "Mini Tokyo 3D" not "Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map"