First Google Transit, now an iPhone App? The MBTA might have taken to heart Adam Weiss' suggestion about joining the 21st century, made at the lone public workshop on fare hikes. But don't worry, the MBTA isn't developing its own iPhone app: it's letting the public do the work. By making transportation data feeds available, the Executive Office of Transportation is hoping that someone else steps up and fixes its problem. Sounds like government's general approach to everything! In the meantime, there's always BusRyda, which offers trip planning in mobile format. But the question remains: is there an app for concealing incriminating emails? Update: Perhaps developers could use the creation of the NPR News iPhone app as an example, combining news alerts and trip planning in one app.
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We covered the launch of BusRyda, which provides mobile MBTA info, last week. The service has already expanded to include a Trip Planner that will help you find out how to get from one particular place to another. Designed with the iPhone in mind, BusRyda also works on other mobile phones. Bostonist talked to BusRyda founder Eric D. Fields, who has a closer connection with DMX than you might think. Read on to learn how toast played a critical part in the creation of this fine new service.
Knowing when your bus is scheduled to come doesn't always help, as many routes are all too often hopelessly off the mark. Just this Sunday evening we saw two #1 buses tailgating each other around Harvard, from where they were supposed to leave 20 minutes apart. Sigh. But for those of you who retain hope that buses may occasionally arrive when they're intended to, the new service BusRyda has come up with easy mobile alerts that are better than the MBTA's.