It's coming, by next year apparently... http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-centre/press-releases/press-releases-con tent.asp?prID=58
J -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 26 February 2007 09:56 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Cc: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk; James Cridland Subject: Re: [backstage] Tube on Twitter At 08:27 +0000 26/2/07, James Cridland wrote: >On 2/24/07, Tom Morris ><<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi all, > >Ian has been bugging me to delurk, so I thought I'd post something I >put together the other day that should be interesting and/or useful for >the Londoners on this list... ><http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris/2007/02/22#twitterTubeTracker> >http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris/2007/02/22#twitterTubeTracker > >I developed it because I wanted to scratch an itch - to know before I >get to the Tube station whether the Circle line is running okay - and >because I don't like premium rate text services where you pay like 50p >to find out only a couple of bits (in the Shannon sense) of >information. > > >This is very cool; though for the Londoners here, you should also know >about <http://alerts.tfl.gov.uk/>http://alerts.tfl.gov.uk/ - an >email/text-alert system run by TfL and BBC London. It's very good: >and is customiseable for your journey times. Emails - and texts - are >all entirely free. > >Not to say this doesn't live on Twitter, though. > >- And doesn't work underground on the Tube? It would of course work in cities which allow mobile phone use on their underground railways (e.g. Stockholm). Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
