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Wow! Just wow. Brail's point-to-point transit map deserves the New York map of the year award; maybe the map of the decade award! It's just so smart and simple: you click once for the starting point of your trip, once for the ending point, and it gives you directions (both walking and via MTA subways). Try it! We gave it a few stumpers (such as downtown to Greenpoint) and it came up with some good ideas (B to the G? Genius!) Congrats, Brail, and hey, Hopstop-- you should hire Brail-- his map interface would be a great addition to your service!
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Amazing!
Very cool - but - I put in a starting point of 63rd & York, and the first instruction was:
Walk for 7 minutes, 29 seconds to the Roosevelt Island station.
Board the F.
Neat trick if you can do it.
Yeah but it still lacks some practicality. To go to my friends place from mine in Lefferts Gardens, they'd have me taking a 12 minute nighttime stroll through the heart of Bed Stuy. And another test had them sending me on the 2 and switching to the Z (!) to get from Prospect Park to East Williamsburg/Bushwick.
It's a neat-o interface, but I told it to get me from my house in Flushing, 43rd Ave and 159th Street, to Springfield and Linden Blvds in Cambria Heights... here's what it says:
Walk for 37 minutes, 9 seconds to the Main Street - Flushing station.
Board the Seven diamond.
Transfer at Woodside - 61st St to the Seven.
Transfer at Broadway - 74th St to the E.
Transfer at Kew Gardens - Union Turnpike to the F.
Get off at Jamaica - 179 Street.
Walk for 1 hours, 15 minutes, 5 seconds to your destination.
Estimated time: 2 hours, 45 minutes, 41 seconds
Ah, I see it only does walking and subways.
The real solution is take the #12 on Northern Blvd to Francis Lewis Blvd, change for the #76, change for the #77 at Hillside Ave.
Estimated time 44 minutes, 14 seconds.
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Coming soon to a city near you, something remarkably similar:
http://www.google.com/transit
Nice. I wonder how the google transit map will compare?
it needs improvement. it has you walking diagonally, through buildings, it doesnt involve the buses, and too often it has you get on the train for one stop, even if it'd probably be faster just to walk it.
Re: Waterwalker's comment (#2):
I got the same kind of result going from Roosevelt Island to York & 65th! Instead of telling me to, I dunno, take the train from the Roosevelt Island stop to Lex & 63rd and then walk over, the site suggests I swim northwest, dodge traffic on the FDR, and trespass through Roosevelt University.
Even mapping from 21st St & 40th Ave in Queens to the same destination, the site tells me to walk south to the Queensbridge station, take the F one stop to Roosevelt Island, and then take the same swim the rest of the way. And starting from Vernon Blvd, it forgoes the subway and suggests I swim (twice!). Apparently, if the direct distance of the points (not taking any street plans into account) is shorter than any convenient subway routes, it defaults to the swim-and-walk-through-buildings route. I don't think the makers of this "map" took water or streets-- or any actual maps, other than the MTA's-- into account.
Hmph -- the map tells me to transfer to a non-existent train! I'm supposed to transfer to the #9 at Times Square, take it to Marble Hill, and then walk back over the Broadway Bridge. Sorry, Charlie.