In a column in The Wall Street Journal, Julia Vitullo-Martin writes about the revolution in transit applications. New York is the latest city to engage the developer community, following recent efforts in other major cities. She writes:
Thus New Yorkers will soon join the residents of hip young cities like Portland, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston, who no longer wait in wretched ignorance for the next bus or train to arrive. Their public transit systems, once the hoariest and most hidebound of city services, have thrown themselves into the geek revolution.
The revolution — characterized as “transit-data democracy” — has already yielded a range of applications for desktops, mobile devices, cell phones, and LED signs. “This is our new non-Orwellian universe,” Vitullo-Martin concludes, “in which technology can set us free.” Link to full story in The Wall Street Journal.
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