Realtime BART Arrival Display

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.

Re: Realtime BART Arrival Display

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Post by p0w3n3d » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 7:44 AM UTC

rafaele wrote: post #4

Cool! Hey I have a feature request: Could you add the robotic voices? https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2009/news20090309

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)

Re: Realtime BART Arrival Display

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Post by jo-m » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 7:48 AM UTC

kleiba wrote: post #2

This should be a commercial product.

There a similar one, but it's the Swiss public transport system: https://tramli.ch/

Re: Realtime BART Arrival Display

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Post by spankalee » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 7:52 AM UTC

kleiba wrote: post #2

This should be a commercial product.

BART has a really good merch store. They should totally sell this on there: https://www.railgoods.com/

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Post by BoredPositron » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 7:58 AM UTC

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.