It's late. It's dark. I can't for the life of me get to sleep. The whole place is quiet except for the occasional sound of someone getting on / off the elevator on my floor. The only reason why I know is 'cause it makes a wirrl-pause-wirrl sound.
On another note, I think that I figured out what the construction by hurdman and Riverside is. It seems to be watermain installation. I wonder if they are going to be putting in a bike path there like someone said, or if that it just rumour.
On a slightly related note, does everyone know about the OC Transpo Travel Planner. It seems to work very well. It's something that would be really kick ass if they would let you download it and put it in your PDA or something. That's something that every city could use. Imagine just taking that app and selling it to a bunch of different cities? Let people download it and use it? That would be so good. That's one of the arguments about "giving away" software: if it's not part of your core business, why restrict assess to it? Their whole business is to get more people on the bus. If they would let anyone with a palm / whatever be able to make a simple query on their palm and it display some times / routes, I think that would encourage more people to use the bus. Baby steps I guess....
Sharing in your insomnia... :o)
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ReplyDelete... and then all they have to do is make bus times accurate. ;)
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I always liked the phone service. It's useful and simple: you call the number on the bus stop, and an automatic message tells you when the next bus is coming.
Admittedly it's handier for people with cell phones, but I've used it from pay phones too.
The reason they are putting in the water main is because they are going to be putting a building on that hill behind hurdman, where they've cleared a little section of land.
ReplyDeleteAnd about having that trip planner on your PDA. I wonder what kind of computing power and amount of data is actually needed to compute the route you should take. Is this something that could even be done on a PDA?
And Ryan, the phone service is fine for telling you when the bus is coming, but trip planner works a lot better for planning out your route.