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December 28, 2012 08:33 pm GMT

NYC Releases App to Tell You When the Next Subway is Coming


New York City is finally giving subway riders a high-tech option to figure out when their train is coming.

The Metropolitan Transportation Association (MTA) released a free app Friday that provides real-time estimates of train arrivals so riders can better plan out when to show up at the station. The app is called Subway Time and is currently only available on the iPhone, though there are plans to release it on other platforms in the future.

Other third-party apps like NextStop and NYC Mate also provide subway arrival time estimates for New York City, but the new Subway Time app has the potential to be more accurate and useful by relying on the MTA's signal data for train arrivals.…
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