nynj.net
About the site
I put this site together because I was tired of rushing to the PATH train without knowing if
I would end up waiting 15 minutes once I got there and using the paper schedule took too long.
Originally I was going to
run it on a computer in my home but then it occurred to me that putting it
on the web would make it more useful to me. Then I realized how useful it could be to other
people and this site was born!
Josh Diehl
Beta Status
This site is in beta status which means that its functionality is still being evaluated.
If you experience bugs or problems, feel free to send in a detailed description of your
problem. Also two schedule related points:
- The site does not currently account for holidays by auto-switching to the holiday schedule
- As of Jan 9 2005 the official schedue has a few time blocks where trains are said to run
"every 4 or 5 minutes". This can't be put into an automated schedule so I have re-used the schedule info
from 2004 for those blocks. This just means that during these blocks the site will report either 4 or 5 minutes.
Contact Info
The e-mail below is shown in "spam-proof" form, you will have to translate it to use it :
info"at" nynj.net
Technical Info
The backend for the site uses a PostgreSQL database. PHP is used to interface with
the database and the next departure pages make heavy use of javascript and "AJAX".
Browser Support
The following browsers are confirmed to work with the preferred "next departures" pages:
- Windows/ Firefox 1.0 & 1.5.0.1, Mozilla 1.73, IE 6
- Mac/ Safari 1.2.4, Firefox 0.8
- Linux/ Mozilla 1.7