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Add option to show trains user SHOULD NOT get on

Open joryphillips opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

Here's a story from an avid, routine user of caltrainschedule.io (me).

Yesterday, I rolled into the 4th & King station on my bike a bit earlier than normal, eager to arrive in MTV in time to make it to a meeting. The SF train station shows departure times more clearly than train numbers, as does this app. I was not fully awake yet, apparently, and even though the displayed time was a bit different, they weren't yet showing my train, and so I got on a weird train. The train I got on stopped everywhere except for MTV, I had to backtrack from Santa Clara, lost 40 minutes of my day, and I missed my meeting. 🥇

If caltrainschedule.io showed that departure time in red and had a big red X next to it or something, I wouldn't have gotten on it, or at least could have realized my error en route and gotten off at Palo Alto.

I think this addition could also be really helpful for visitors and people new to caltrain.

Happy to work on a PR if you like this idea.

joryphillips avatar Apr 07 '17 02:04 joryphillips

The idea seems good, generally to me.

So while the site lists trains that are serving both origin and destination, you're saying... let's also show the additional train times you should not get on.

the idea seems good and super helpful. It also adds more information about the "now" than we have currently, which i think is a good thing as interactions are very much about the-next-hour vs the-whole-day.

a PR would be awesome!

paulirish avatar Apr 10 '17 19:04 paulirish