NJTwatch creeps into Beta

My summer side project is NJTwatch.com, a free site with crowdsourced info about how the local commuter trains are doing.

It scrapes the official alerts from the New Jersey Transit site, and mixes in emails and tweets from smartphone-armed commuters. Turnaround time is about five minutes. There is even a mobile-friendly site.

Today it's reached the "presentable" stage, and the data is flowing pretty well.

If you ride the Northeast Corridor trains and want to contribute, let me know.

More on this later.

Grazie to web developer Caimin Jones for the code.