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Find Port Authority Hand Schedules Instantly
written 17 Mar 2008 over dinner
After I created this mobile-optimized version of the Port Authority’s trip finder, Jake from 42harold.org sent me some code and permission to style up his own creation, an extremely simple and easy to use little form that allows you to type in the name of a bus you’re looking to find and it’ll bring up the PDF version of the hand schedule from the Port Authority’s website.
Therefore, I give you the Port Authority Hand Schedule Lookup »
Keep in mind this is for the Allegheny County Port Authority which serves Pittsburgh and surrounding areas and if your particular mobile device can’t handle PDFs, you’re out of luck. But for smartphone and iPhone users, this might be a life saver on some cold and rainy holiday when you’re wondering when your next bus will be kind enough to stop by.
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A Better Port Authority Trip Finder
The Port Authority of Allegheny County offers an online trip planner that is decent from a functionality standpoint, but the Port Authority’s website in general, to be as definitively accurate as possible, sucks. For example, it’s a table-based layout, the design leaves a good bit to be desired, the site’s homepage fails HTML validation with 65 errors, and it’s awfully slow. Plus, it’s one of the few remaining sites where you actually have to type in www or you get a Bad Request error.
So I’ve done what I could and nabbed the primary code from their main site and optimized it for mobile phones. Well, for iPhone in particular, but it should work relatively well on any mobile device that’s got an Internet connection. If you use the site on a mobile device other than iPhone, let me know how it looks / functions in the comments.
iPhone and mobile device optimized Port Authority Trip Planner »
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