The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority is experimenting with several approaches to providing countdown information on buses and trains, as regular readers of The Transit Wire know. The New York Times summarizes these efforts, talking with passengers about their experience. “Since it got put up, I find myself really relying on it,” one passenger told The Times. Not everyone agreed. “It doesn’t change the way I commute,” another rider said. “We probably don’t trust them. As a New Yorker, you know that nothing works.” MTA chairman Jay Walder hopes to change that attitude, saying, “We can take some of the angst out of the subway and bus experience.” Link to full story in The New York Times.
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