Announcing iCaltrain for Mobile Phones

iCaltrain is now available for web-enabled cell phones at m.iCaltrain.com. The primary design goal was keeping it as lightweight as possible while supporting different screen sizes. Similar to the iPhone version (iCaltrain.com), it’s easy to access the return trip schedule.

13 Responses to “Announcing iCaltrain for Mobile Phones”

  1. Michael Dautermann Says:

    Thanks for offering this nifty service.

    You should add in a name record for “mobile.icaltrain.com” which points to the smaller & simpler “m.icaltrain.com”.

    I like the name “m”, but many mobile services can be found at sites that start with the name “mobile”.

    Hope this suggestion helps!

  2. Mike Says:

    Michael, thank you for the suggestion!

    “mobile.icaltrain.com” now points to “m.icaltrain.com”.

  3. Griffon Says:

    Thank you for making this! I was going slowly nuts trying to use the full web form. I moved from teh treo and I really missed the little java app with alarms, but this is huge step back in the right direction!

  4. susie Says:

    Totally useful. If you get a chance please add the palo alto california station timetable. Great work

  5. Mike Says:

    Susie, the Palo Alto California Ave station is listed as “California Ave.” station, which is how Caltrain has it listed on their schedule.

  6. Sean Says:

    Some ideas:

    1) Consider having the option to sort the station list by stop order - rather than alphabetical
    2) Some may find it faster to transfer trains; example - travel from 22nd to Lawrence - a transfer at Mtn View is faster at some times

  7. tim flood Says:

    Thanks for this service! It would be cool if you could add train estimated arrival times at each stop.

  8. Mike Says:

    @Tim, estimated arrival times isn’t available for Caltrain yet, though they’ve announced plans to do so in 2008.

  9. ayesha Says:

    I love this app. One suggestion is to add the 22nd street station with that schedule. This way folks would know which trains stop at this station.I was waiting for the train and it just went passed me

  10. Mike Says:

    @ayesha, glad you find it useful. 22nd Street station should already appear as the first station in the station list. Let me know if that’s not the case. thanks.

  11. Darin Says:

    Starting today the web app is broken it just now reports train numbers instead of depart/arrival times. on my crackberry e.g.:

    San Francisco to Palo Alto
    Show return trip
    Depart Arrive Travel Time
    4 AM
    102 102 0 min
    104 104 0 min
    206+ 206+ 0 min
    208+ 208+ 0 min
    210+ 210+ 0 min
    312++ 312++ 0 min
    314++ 314++ 0 min
    216+ 216+ 0 min
    218+ 218+ 0 min
    220+ 220+ 0 min
    322++ 322++ 0 min
    324++ 324++ 0 min
    226+ 226+ 0 min
    228+ 228+ 0 min
    230+ 230+ 0 min
    332++ 332++ 0 min
    134 134 0 min
    236+ 236+ 0 min
    138 138 0 min
    240+ 240+ 0 min
    142 142 0 min
    244+ 244+ 0 min
    146 146 0 min
    248+ 248+ 0 min
    150 150 0 min
    252+ 252+ 0 min
    154 154 0 min
    256+ 256+ 0 min
    158 158 0 min
    260+ 260+ 0 min
    362++ 362++ 0 min
    264+ 264+ 0 min
    266+ 266+ 0 min
    368++ 368++ 0 min
    270+ 270+ 0 min
    372++ 372++ 0 min
    274+ 274+ 0 min
    276+ 276+ 0 min
    378++ 378++ 0 min
    280+ 280+ 0 min
    382++ 382++ 0 min
    284+ 284+ 0 min
    386++ 386++ 0 min
    288+ 288+ 0 min
    190 190 0 min
    192 192 0 min
    194 194 0 min
    196 196 0 min
    198 198 0 min
    Show return trip
    San Francisco to Palo Alto

  12. Mike Says:

    @ Darin.

    I just tried the site on Safari and it’s returning the correct schedule. Are you still seeing missing schedule on your crackberry?

  13. Darin Says:

    Nope. Still broken. Have tried different stop combinations, still shows train number and 0 min for the time.

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