A couple years back WMATA begin posting Metrorail Delays on its web site in an Alerts scroll bar. They conveniently also put these into RSS feeds so others could use the information. We used it to create Transit Alerts scrolls bars on most of the pages on CommuterPage.com and ArlingtonTransit.com that included the information for Metrorail along with service alerts for our ART buses - also available through RSS Feeds. We also use these Transit Alerts scrolls on TV screens in all of our Commuter Stores (and coming soon to selected bus stops).
So we were really excited when WMATA recently announced that they were making bus service alerts available on their web site. So if you go to their web site the bus alerts are alongside the rail information in the scroll bars. But what they didn't do was make this available in RSS feeds so that others can use it. We'd like to add it to our web sites and TVs. We'd like to make it easy for our customers.
Anybody know if WMATA will be doing this? We can't seem to find out.
Chris Hamilton is the Commuter Services Chief for Arlington County, manager of CommuterPageBlog and a Metro/biking commuter from Rosemont in Alexandria.
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