Make Your Own CTA Tracker

By Chuck Sudo in News on Dec 8, 2011 7:45PM

Here's something that could be of use for small business owners and condo co-ops, with the deep winter coming. CTA has a do-it-yourself transit info display that "makes it easy for anyone with some computer savvy" to put together a slideshow of bus and train route arrival times so that folks reliant on public transportation don't, for example, freeze their little piggies waiting for a caravan of Clark Street buses.

CTA says the system runs on Mac OS, Windows XP, Vista and 7 and various versions of Linux, and recommends using a video monitor with a display of at least 1024x768, but widescreen is preferred. the slideshow offers customized arrival times for up to 16 stops, weather information and service change information for routes you specifically request.

Someone please let us know how this works, if you're so inclined.