The state has your T-alert RSS feed right here. It's still in beta form, and it smushes all the alerts together (so there's no Green Line only feed, say), but it'll let developers/hackers begin to play around with new ways of letting riders know about dead trains and the like.
There's also a Google Group for talking about state transportation data.
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Overload
By escapedfromeastie
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 8:06pm
This will be the most active RSS feed in the history of the Internet.
Yep
By johnmcboston
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 10:04am
Amen to that. I get the red line feed and I'm amazed how many breakdowns they have every day. This is going to be to be RSS overload...
Yep - 18 posts since start of service this morning... sigh.
Not to mention all the
By roadman
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 12:18pm
duplicate alert messages telling us exactly the same thing, and the longwinded "all clear" messages that insist on reiterating the reason for the original delay in service.
"All Green Line service now on or near schedule due to a disabled train at Kenmore"
Worse
By johnmcboston
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 3:47pm
Seems once an house the notice of the Copley outbound escalator is out of service. Has been for months - why do I need an 'hourly' reminder? I think we're close to 100 posts already for today. :)
OK, that is much worse.
By roadman
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 3:56pm
A duplicate post once an hour = 24 extra posts in a day = 168 extra posts a week = well you get the idea.
And why am I suddenly reminded of that old annoying "and they'll tell two friends" shampoo ad?
Fairly pointless...
By JennOrSomeoneElse
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 12:18am
as the alerts typically come through after it's too late to actually make use of them, and sometimes long after the delays have impacted people...and as such totally defeat the purpose of RSS as a tool for rapid dissemination of information.