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This would be extremely useful in one of the mobile muni apps. I look at Transporter in the morning to know when to leave for the N, but if it had an indicator of…",{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},"8132820","evanm","This is awesome. Nice work. Accurately shows the N-Judah ridiculousness I experienced this morning.",[],"unknown",{"praise":60,"objections":78,"requests":95,"questions":114,"alternatives":129},[61,71],{"value":62,"source":63,"evidence":64},"Useful for seeing N Judah delays and deciding when to walk or bike instead.","commenter",[65,66,67],{"id":50,"by":51,"text":52},{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"8133509","timr","Yep. And it's more than just psychological: say I have to be somewhere that's 15 minutes away by bus, and 30 minutes away by foot (this is common for me). A random 20 minute…",{"value":72,"source":63,"evidence":73},"Marey's Trains style graphs are a good fit for this data.",[74],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"8132720","oscilloscope","This graphical schedule visualization is often called Marey's Trains. https:\u002F\u002Fmbostock.github.io\u002Fprotovis\u002Fex\u002Fcaltrain.html Another project that uses Marey's Trains is an…",[79,86],{"value":80,"source":63,"evidence":81},"Comparing against the published schedule is not very useful; planned interval matters more.",[82],{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"8132863","dougmccune","Trying to compare against the published schedule isn't all that useful. As a resident of SF, I long ago gave up the idea that you could look up the scheduled arrival of a bus and…",{"value":87,"source":63,"evidence":88},"Delays at the start of routes may reflect driver breaks or waiting rather than traffic.",[89,92],{"id":90,"by":69,"text":91},"8132696","Looking at some of the bus routes confirms something I've suspected about MUNI for a long time: most of the \"delays\" happen at the beginning of the route. I've watched bus…",{"id":93,"by":69,"text":94},"8133421","If you look at these graphs, you'll consistently see horizontal lines in front of the first bus of the day, or on busses that run an hour apart. That's not a delay due to the…",[96,100,107],{"value":97,"source":63,"evidence":98},"Measure deviation from planned headway instead of the published schedule.",[99],{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},{"value":101,"source":63,"evidence":102},"Add private bus locations to the data.",[103],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"8133120","justizin","This would be a lot more interesting with data about private bus locations interlaced with coordinated time.",{"value":108,"source":63,"evidence":109},"Sort bus lines numerically and place limited lines after their regular lines.",[110],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"8132805","birken","Looks interesting. One minor thing is that if the sorting of the bus lines was numeric rater than lexical I think it would be easier to find a specific bus line. Also the limited…",[115,122],{"value":116,"source":63,"evidence":117},"What the short black lines represent.",[118],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"8132828","refurb","What do the short black lines represent? 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