You're in a dark, noisy bar, doing your bit to support the local economy. It's half past midnight.
Do you have time for another drink? Or are you about to miss the last bus, subway, train or trolley?
Inspired by isepta, septime provides information about the next ten departures from any stop mentioned in SEPTA's online schedules.
septime formats its output in a way that even the simplest of Internet-enabled cell phones and similar devices can handle (*).
septime results can be bookmarked and we strongly recommend using it in that way. (Yes, you can bookmark things on your cheap little phone's web browser. That little phone is a rock star. Trust me on this.) Returning to the bookmark later will once again display upcoming departures without the need to key in any new information. Convenient, no?
SEPTA also provides Google Maps integration on the iPhone and other devices, a automated voice response system at 215-580-7800 which also provides departure times for any given stop, and an iPhone application of their own. My system is uniquely handy when you know your stop and just want to know when the upcoming departures are. There is also something to be said for paper schedules. Choose what works for you.
Use septime at your own risk.
Fellow coders: you can get your data from SEPTA's GTFS download page now if you want to build similar things.
septime was designed by Tom Boutell of P'unk Avenue. You can reach him at tom@punkave.com.
(*) Well... okay, so it doesn't do old-school WAP from the days when HTML of any kind was not supported. But that was at least two generations of free phone upgrades ago, even at the very low end.
Unofficial SEPTA schedule information: the next ten departures from any stop on any SEPTA route
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