Comments on: I’ve been written up http://cow.org/c/archives/95 Community supported Caltrain notices, one tweet at a time Wed, 16 May 2012 22:59:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: G http://cow.org/c/archives/95/comment-page-1#comment-146 G Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:15:07 +0000 http://cow.org/c/?p=95#comment-146 Caltrain's daily expectation of which trainset (consist) will run which service is disrupted every single day, according to more than one of their operations folks. They have not posted the information about their daily consists, because they can not be as accurate as they want to be (again, according to their operations folks). That excel spreadsheet which matches a locomotive to the train run would be a decent way to predict, but again they prepare it early in the day, and they have admitted several times their IT infrastructure is lacking. One morning within the past calendar year (likely March) their server for the signal equipment went out and prevented regular train service for 3 hours, during the morning commute. Granted, the baby bullet service has a higher propensity for Bombardier equipment, but they have only 5 Bombardier consists, which prevents all Baby Bullet service schedules to have the Bombardier. Caltrain has even had offers for free assistance to offer real time updates (ala BART, ACE, MUNI, and many other transit organizations); they have declined all comers. Caltrain’s daily expectation of which trainset (consist) will run which service is disrupted every single day, according to more than one of their operations folks. They have not posted the information about their daily consists, because they can not be as accurate as they want to be (again, according to their operations folks). That excel spreadsheet which matches a locomotive to the train run would be a decent way to predict, but again they prepare it early in the day, and they have admitted several times their IT infrastructure is lacking. One morning within the past calendar year (likely March) their server for the signal equipment went out and prevented regular train service for 3 hours, during the morning commute.

Granted, the baby bullet service has a higher propensity for Bombardier equipment, but they have only 5 Bombardier consists, which prevents all Baby Bullet service schedules to have the Bombardier.

Caltrain has even had offers for free assistance to offer real time updates (ala BART, ACE, MUNI, and many other transit organizations); they have declined all comers.

]]> By: David Paschich http://cow.org/c/archives/95/comment-page-1#comment-143 David Paschich Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:16:29 +0000 http://cow.org/c/?p=95#comment-143 The @bikecar tweets have this information - the different car types have different bike capacities. The @bikecar tweets have this information – the different car types have different bike capacities.

]]> By: Evan Goldin http://cow.org/c/archives/95/comment-page-1#comment-142 Evan Goldin Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:50:20 +0000 http://cow.org/c/?p=95#comment-142 +1 on valerie's request. Though, as much as I'd like to see that, that shouldn't go on the regular @caltrain Twitter -- it would totally crowd it up. It should be a separate account. Though, it seems like there's a somewhat predictable pattern to whether they have new or old cars...can someone sanity check that? +1 on valerie’s request. Though, as much as I’d like to see that, that shouldn’t go on the regular @caltrain Twitter — it would totally crowd it up.

It should be a separate account. Though, it seems like there’s a somewhat predictable pattern to whether they have new or old cars…can someone sanity check that?

]]> By: Valerie Aurora http://cow.org/c/archives/95/comment-page-1#comment-138 Valerie Aurora Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:10:38 +0000 http://cow.org/c/?p=95#comment-138 I wonder, would it be useful to anyone else to add updates on which equipment a train is using? In my ideal worlds, I would only ride the bullet with the new (Bombardier) cars - I will happily wait for the next train if I know it has the new cars. But as far as I can tell, there is no way to predict which equipment any particular train will be using - other than riders at SF/SJ tweeting about it. Oh, and thank you very much! I wonder, would it be useful to anyone else to add updates on which equipment a train is using? In my ideal worlds, I would only ride the bullet with the new (Bombardier) cars – I will happily wait for the next train if I know it has the new cars. But as far as I can tell, there is no way to predict which equipment any particular train will be using – other than riders at SF/SJ tweeting about it.

Oh, and thank you very much!

]]> By: Ted E http://cow.org/c/archives/95/comment-page-1#comment-136 Ted E Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:33:40 +0000 http://cow.org/c/?p=95#comment-136 I saw the article and the TV spot last night. You probably have a whole bunch of new folks on the list now Side note: was happy to see fearless leader" was using a Hackintosh. I saw the article and the TV spot last night.
You probably have a whole bunch of new folks on the list now

Side note: was happy to see fearless leader” was using a Hackintosh.

]]> By: samner http://cow.org/c/archives/95/comment-page-1#comment-135 samner Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:55:21 +0000 http://cow.org/c/?p=95#comment-135 i'm famous!!! :-p thanks for the great service ravi! i’m famous!!! :-p thanks for the great service ravi!

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