[nylug-talk] OT - city wide GPS question???

[Peter C. Norton]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:32:52PM -0500, R. Drew Davis wrote:
> I took a look at MetrO last night.   Pretty spiffy, but it knows
> connectivity, not schedules, and it doesn't know at all about the NYC
> bus routes.   I asked it how to get from Penn Station to the
> Metropolitan Museum and instead of sending me to the M4 bus at 32nd St.
> that drops you off at 83rd and Madison, it sent me via subway, with 2
> changes of train, to 86th and Lexington, a bit more of a walk from the
> museum entrance on 5th Ave.   

But far faster. You can spend all day on the m4.

> I was impressed that it knew the Long
> Island Railroad stations, but again, without it knowing the schedule,
> it's advice for getting to Westbury from Penn Station is strictly to
> take the train to Westbury.   There are twice as many trains to
> Hicksville, and often the right choice, if you are in a hurry, depending
> on the time of day is to take the train to Hicksville, the next station
> along the line, after Westbury, and then double-back on the bus from
> Hicksville station back into Westbury.   I guess I was setting my hopes
> too high for what MetrO would "know" for me.

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-Peter

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