I've also finally gotten around to posting the current version of my GTFS-rt archiver, plus the Trackernet archiver, and a bunch of other things that have accumulated in the same monorepo: github.com/kurtraschke/...

This is heavily modeled on the stringlines I recently built for the London Underground, but BART's GTFS-realtime data makes the underlying data pipelines considerably simpler.

github.com/kurtraschke/...

So, I've gone and built another widget: Data Lake Merritt, real-time stringlines for BART.

data-lake-merritt.choochoo.systems

"we can just do stuff"

You should read "Unknown Number": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown...

(This of course left an elevator technician temporarily stranded in the elevator, along with the electric chain hoist which was to be used during the decommissioning process. Perhaps the elevator was trying to protest?)

Considering how underdeveloped Hudson County was in the early 2000s, I have to wonder: how empty were those trains?

8 TPH to a lot of vacant lots and low-density development is a _ton_ of service.

Meanwhile 3 TPH to areas that have experienced meteoric growth in the past decade is shameful.