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Chicago Bus Tracker Gadget

After writing about bus tracking goodness on the iPhone a couple weeks ago, I’ve been looking for other tools that access CTA’s bus data. It turns out that Kevin Zolkiewicz, the guy behind the excellent ChicagoBus.org created a bus tracking widget for MacOS X, and then another local developer,  [...]

iPhone Bus Tracking

iPhone bus tracking icons

iPhone bus tracking icons

Last April, Ars Technica had a nice write-up comparing CTA Tracker and Buster, the two native iPhone apps that interface with the CTA’s bus tracking system. Since that article appeared, developers have released new versions of both applications, and the CTA has expanded its services to include all regularly scheduled routes, and made some improvements to its CTA Bus Tracker site making it slightly more usable on the iPhone itself. I thought it was worth taking a look at the current applications, and whether or not the CTA site on it’s own is good enough to stand on its own while browsing on the go.

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