SFist: NextMuni's Leaking Data For Classified Diesel Lines

guest

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:49:40 -0800

Here's the thing I don't buy about there only being three NextBus equipped vehicles on the 43. The vast majority of the MUNI bus fleet (ETI, NABI, NeoPlan, and Orion 7s) already has GPS tracking equipment of some sort. What's that? you say. They've all got the AVL (automatic vehicle locator) doohickeies, visible in the form of stop announcement devices. From the NB web site, NB can be integrated with third party AVL systems. From what I can glean from google, MUNI awarded NB the contract for AVL stuff. From what I remember MUNI awarded the AVL contract to someone else in '99. That, and, they don't run special buses on the 43. The New Flyer trolleybuses and the Orion Is will probably never get retrofitted with NextBus equipment (as they're both, in theory, retired). What's my point? If NB did the existing GPS stuff, then it should all work. If NB didn't, why isn't it interoperating? Eh... regardless, the existing GPS stuff is somewhat unreliable in my experience. The last 28 I took was not being predicted by the NB sign at Geary & Park Presidio, nor was it announcing stops to patrons until after the driver restarted the bus (had to turn it off to go into Starbucks).

guest

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:15:50 -0800

ps it is pretty funny you blogged about this this morning and now they added almost all of the main routes.

guest

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:14:22 -0800

So you should blog about how now tons of buses (as of today) are on nextbus, finally the god damn 28...

guest

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:50:48 -0800

scorched, there are only 3 buses that have a next transmitter currently running on the 23 route. Most likely that is why muni/nextbus has not enabled the service. Oh wait I forgot, it just because they are lazy, and not jumping to install transmitters every single bus in the fleet ASAP....

scorched

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:53:14 -0800

Looking at the map and replacing "43" with "23" explains a lot about why my commute on the is so deeply fucked up: there are only 3 buses on the entire route.

mattymatt

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:37:36 -0800

Don't just stand there, watching NextMuni fail. Let them know so they can fix it. Website at nextbus dot com. They can't wait to hear from you.

guest

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:30:50 -0800

I'm new to Next Muni, being a 38 rider. I like having it, but it is so f---ed up that it is useless. For instance, this morning, as happens every morning, the 38 L was listed on the little sign as coming in 58 minutes and 65 minutes. It showed up in two minutes. The first time this happened, I almost opted for the regular, but the limited showed up just in time. Now I just ignore the lying bastard.

Ciaran

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:35:37 -0800

I asked NextMuni about the 43 - they said in the next couple of months, maybe much sooner.

guest

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:11:24 -0800

Also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/19417968@N00/1264549158/

guest

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:08:08 -0800

Yes Matt, I'm sure that these lines will show up sooner or later. They publicized a bunch of diesel routes last month, right? There are semi-active (and totally inaccurate) signs along some other diesel routes.

Greg

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:35:05 -0800

in ur next muni, reportin ur diesel linez seriously: diesel lines are planned for the fall.