Comments on: My wishlist for the new TTC website

By: Jeeves Moss

Jeeves Moss — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:56:13 +0000

How about this, stop complaining, and if you live in T.O. and have the skills, I’ve got the time and servers. If you’re god @ programming and want to give the TTC (personally I hate them)a run for their $$$, drop me a line.

And why stop @ the TTC? I’m sure if I can get some bright people, there are others that can be taken on.

-Jeeves.

By: Spikes

Spikes — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:49:10 +0000

Trip planner would be nice. I gotta do it all manually… :(

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:25:02 +0000

Hi Ian, great site! Just wanted to comment on something…

“A trip planner, ideally with Google Transit integration. Mississauga Transit has trip routing, but itâ€™s limited to pre-selected landmarks, is almost unusable (I canâ€™t get the non-standard pulldowns to work) ”

I live on a typical suburban court street in Mississauga and have used my exact street address just fine on the MT route planner site. Just use the “Address” tab instead of the landmark tab. It even included the walk time from my house to local bus stop. I haven’t used two exact addresses yet though, just from my house to a landmark. Also, I remember when the MT planner site first opened, the pull-down menus were very slow and practically unusable. A few months later it was sped up and feels very usable to me.

By: My day at the Toronto Transit Camp - crazed monkey

My day at the Toronto Transit Camp - crazed monkey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:45:10 +0000

[...] I attended a session on opening up the TTC data, which centred around creating an API for third-party developers. That was one of my pie-in-the sky suggestions for a new TTC website, so I thought it would be interesting. It was, but much of the discussion involved creating a trip-planner based on data available on the website. Offshoots of that grand scheme, such as creating an interface for determining the time until a bus appears at a specific stop (an idea Iâ€™ve thought of but havenâ€™t touched), were discussed as well. [...]

By: Reading Toronto responds to my criticism of their spreadsheet - crazed monkey

Reading Toronto responds to my criticism of their spreadsheet - crazed monkey — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:32:59 +0000

[...] In retrospect, I’m sorry I missed the post which announced the upcoming matrix. Had I seen it, I might have offered suggestions then and not after the fact. Also, my critique wasn’t meant personally and certainly not as a jab at what the four weblogs are contributing. Indeed, I offered my own suggestions for improvements to the TTC website a few weeks ago. I realise that my post may have come across as gruff, but understand that the fields of software development and usability are ones about which I care deeply, and so I am often perturbed when others aren’t as careful as I would like them to be. [...]

By: Mike Drach

Mike Drach — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:26:02 +0000

All great ideas, but one thing:

“Every surface stop should have its own bookmarkable link, not just major ones like those currently listed.”

The only problem with that is, the buses don’t run on time as it is. I’ve never once had the Sherbourne bus, for instance, coincide with the schedule printed online or for that matter, on the bus stops. The TTC will always suck in that respect.