http://bostonist.com/2007/12/03/how_are_those_t.php All comments for How Are Those T Alerts Working Out for Ya? en-us 2009 rickbang Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:29:29 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss rick@bostonist.com rick@bostonist.com 60 http://bostonist.com/2007/12/03/how_are_those_t.php#comment-1244403 http://bostonist.com/2007/12/03/how_are_those_t.php#comment-1244403 Comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:37:41 -0500 <p>I'll give you another reason the alerts aren't helpful (at least the text message ones): you can't specify a narrow enough time period to receive them. The only period relevant to most morning commutes would be the option "AM Peak 5:00 AM - 9:30 AM", but if people leave for work around, say, 8:00-8:30am, why would they want text messages waking them up at 5:00am, 6:00am, etc.? Would it really be that hard to let people specify a time? Something like that really would have helped me this morning when my regular bus was 20 minutes late due to a breakdown of an earlier bus--I'd rather get one message about the 8:20 bus than five messages about the five buses affected before it.</p>