Comments on: Caltrain Schedule Update on March 3, 2008

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:27:46 +0000

@ Nathan, just added the swap station feature. Click on “From:” to see it in action.

By: Ferdinand

Ferdinand — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:10:54 +0000

Hi Mike,

Awesome tool. I was wondering if you could put another column for caltrain number after the travel time. Sometimes the trains come within 5-10min of each other or the schedule gets out of wack if there is a delay and it’s hard to tell which one is which without the train number.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:43:20 +0000

@Nathan, great idea. Look for it in the next update that’s coming soon.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:39:51 +0000

@ Katherine, I don’t have that specific model to try the site, but I would think there’s a way to scroll through a drop down list. Perhaps you can try posting a question in one of the Samsung Instinct forum, such as http://www.sprintinstinctforum.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=31

By: Katherine Arthurs

Katherine Arthurs — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:07:31 +0000

First, thanks for developing this tool!

I am now using the new Samsung/Sprint Instinct. The page loads without an issue, but the pulldown menu, only displays Santa Clara, through Tamien…so basically the last four options in the menu. There is no cursor to move up or down the list. Any ideas? Trying to get to Menlo Park.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:18:24 +0000

Hey Mike, great tool. I would find a “reverse stations” button on the search form very useful. I know you can do the return trip link from the search results, but changing it upfront with JS would be faster (and less load on your server too)…

By: Joe Hughes

Joe Hughes — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:30:28 +0000

Hey Mike,

I’ve been finding myself on Caltrain a lot this past month, and I have to say that iCaltrain is my new favorite iPhone webapp–it makes it a lot easier to figure out which trains will actually stop at the stations I want.

BTW, could you shoot me an email? I was sending a note about the new Caltrain data feed to all the Caltrain app developers that I knew of yesterday, and I realized that I didn’t have your contact info handy.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:45:02 +0000

@ Heikki,

Thanks for letting me know about the schedule bugs. The bugs were in the web schedule on the Caltrain site on March 3. It looks like they’ve fixed them and I’ve updated iCaltrain accordingly.

By: Heikki Toivonen

Heikki Toivonen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:51:51 +0000

I found some bugs in the latest Caltrain schedule:

1) Train 146 (weekday southbound) from Menlo Park to Santa Clara has times 13:XX (should be 1:XX).

2) Train 195 (weekday northbound) arrives in San Francisco at 10:01 (should be 11:01).

I fixed these in my app, http://caltrain.heikkitoivonen.net/.

By: Heikki Toivonen

Heikki Toivonen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:42:36 +0000

Transfers aren’t required always, but for example if you were traveling from Belmont to San Antonio on a weekday, and needed to be at your destination before 8 am you would have to take 208 at 7:04 am and transfer at Redwood City to 210 (actually, I think you could transfer also at San Carlos and Palo Alto), which would get you to San Antonio at 7:34 am. It is funny that I had actually never realized transfers would be needed in some cases.

I thought about a UI but no good ideas at the moment.