Take that, New York!

@toilet joe: For the cost of what they spent on the "cell-phone-blah-blah" they would be able to increase frequency by around 0.2%, for one year. Meaning if the route sucks because the density is too low and it serves f$^&ing Dumbasskiss, (is that Dumbass Kiss, or Dumb Asskiss?) and so it only makes sense to run it once an hour at rush hour in the first place, it would be able to run every 59 minutes and 54 seconds instead. For that year. Then they'd go back to no "cell-phone-blah-blah" and still only run every hour.

Exactly, Trimet isn't making (spending money on) any of the cell phone blah blahs. They have made the data available, and independent programmers are using the data to make the blah blahs. "How did Portland become a transit technology pioneer without spending a dime?"

Also, Mirk, what's a computer science power couple? Is that some sort of kickass server config, or is it two people who are in a relationship and are doing the programming for Trimet?