Seattlest: Snow Monkeywrenches Seattle's Commute

jessejb

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:17:46 -0800

I walked from downtown to Olive and up to 15th. Beat all the busses to the top. Sad.

MvB

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:23:34 -0800

The OBA blog says they use the same "real-time" feed as MyBus gets from Metro, so when that goes down, OBA is blind, too. I think they revert to publishing "scheduled" times at that point. It sounds like you got lucky, punk.

Audrey

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:57:17 -0800

When Metro's tracker is down, MyBus is worthless (i.e., all the time). I don't know where One Bus Away gets their data, but they were dead on for me this morning.

MvB

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:53:26 -0800

Oh, now I hear the actual tracking feed is down completely, so all your MyBus and OneBusAway results are useless. Super.

MvB

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:47:32 -0800

And I see the Metro Tracker page is providing a lot of No Info as the buses move to reroutes and cease to provide accurate travel time info. So One Bus Away results will be hampered by that, too.

Wesa

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:40:29 -0800

Metro's adverse weather/reroute page is still worthless.