Comments on: The New MTA Email Alert System – Replacing a real flood with an email flood

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:25:00 +0000

Hi Sally – this blog post actually came about because I was literally getting notifications from the MTA every few hours for a while, none of which really were relevant to me. But somewhat ironically, after I posted this, I also have seen a radical reduction in the qty of notification messages. Wondering if maybe they got a lot of complaints and are limiting notifications only to major issues?

By: Sally Nolan

Sally Nolan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:50:42 +0000

You can customize what you want to get messages for. There is a check box for each line. You don’t have to get all the lines. Just check the ones you want. I signed up about a week ago for the 7 and the M. I got nothing so far for the 7 and only a couple for the M. I don’t see this flood you are talking about.

By: Anders

Anders — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:49:56 +0000

Hey Juan – thanks so much for the tip – definitely going to check it out!

By: Juan Rafael Lopez

Juan Rafael Lopez — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:37:51 +0000

The iPhone app for this is already out and its free! Its called CityTransit. It locates you and finds the nearest station. Two clicks away are the “Advisories” per train in a very clean interface. As a nice start page to the app, it opens to a full NYC train map with the same interaction technique as Google Maps. I think its a great app, enjoy it.

By: franziep

franziep — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:15:35 +0000

What they could do is have the subscription be more personalized. Therefore if one uses certain lines say a Bay Ridge resident would be concerened about the linex or whatever. If that same resident made a daily commute to the bronx his/her other connecting lines would also be of interest.
In the alert sign up process the alerts should be graded according to severity and the user given the choice of severity he/she signs up for.
I would be solely interested (concerned) in delays of my lines and terrorist activity period. I am certainly not interested in sick passenger who is delaying the Flushing queens station train from getting out if i live in Brooklyn.