Metra Schedules

Jeff at the Logan Square Nerdery had a hard time reading Metra's Schedules when he would check them on his iPhone. Zooming in and out seemed tedious and unnecessary. He reformatted things to look better mostly for his own reference, but thought other people might find it useful too. For the time being, only routes and stops that he takes are implemented.

This site uses the Open Source iui for its appearance, licensed under the New BSD License. We're not legally required to tell you that or anything, we just wanted to give credit.

We haven't finished a thing, so nothing works yet.

Once we get the highly personal data Jeff wants to check published, the next step would be to make it useful to the general public. The ideal organization is unclear currently. We're thinking the best way would be to select the line, then the direction, then the stops and present all the possible departure/arrival time pairs, but that would be a bit complicated. Just listing all the data in a readable fashion sounds like an easy task, but the amount of information in any simple timetable is a lot to fit on the iPhone screen.

We're open to suggestions, so contact us (link exits this app) with suggestions.