Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Next New Thing

In Korea, every subway stations has the machines or board that shows when the next train comes (3min later just same like L line in New York). However, in New York has so old system. I know it is very hard to change everything but, we need it so bad because of the mass transportation. I often wait a subway train for a long time in the hectic morning due to delaying trains and miss the trains just as it pulls out of the station. As a result, I propose creating a practical form of new media via cell phone. We can track their local trains and buses via cell phones for time of next train and track. And, we also buy the tickets for bus, subway and LIRR by cell phones. Sometimes, we forget to refill our tickets. It will be easily and convenience. We don’t need to wait to buy the tickets anymore.

7 comments:

  1. That would be extremely convenient. Great idea. Everything should be able to be done with the internet and via any electronic device.

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  2. i hate waiting for the train and missing it sometimes by a fraction of a second. Updates should be provided by the mta so we know how far the nearest train is from our stop.

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  3. I agree. NYC subway station is extremely outdated. Other countries' subways are a lot more efficient. However it is very hard to change everything because the system is so big and many people depend on it.

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  4. that would be extremely helpful if they have this for all the subway lines. this way they can put the fare hikes to good use as well. also i'm pretty sure people wouldn't mind as much for fare hikes if it were beneficial to them.

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  5. I don't use the subway a lot, but I would be interested in this sort of thing for buses. As far as I can tell, buses tend to be more prone to delays from traffic and weather than subways do, so this would be very useful for me to plan out whether I want to wait around ten minutes or grab something to eat during the downtime.

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  6. yeah, NY's subway system is really outdated, people need to come up with something new to make it work more efficiently, or just work. I am not sure about the idea with cell phone subway updates (might flood your ceel with unnecessary information). But having boards that would show the time schedule both inside and outside the subway would help a lot.

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  7. i really really hate waiting for the trains and bus. It is NEVER on time. They need to have a board that tells us how long will it take b4 next train or bus comes like you said. would be really helpful.

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