{"id":4116,"date":"2009-03-17T13:40:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/03\/17\/ttc-streetcar-gps-tracker-info-has-its-limits\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:34:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:34:16","slug":"ttc-streetcar-gps-tracker-info-has-its-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/03\/17\/ttc-streetcar-gps-tracker-info-has-its-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"TTC streetcar GPS tracker info has its limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/141\/332473120_0cfa2dcf29.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of our readers will have already read my <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/03\/17\/ttc-streetcars-goes-gps\/\">post from early this morning<\/a> (around 2am) when Spacing got word that the TTC&#8217;s GPS tracking system had a &#8220;live&#8221; web feed (still in beta testing mode) to let riders know the next arrival time of a streetcar.<\/p>\n<p>But Spacing received word from the TTC this afternoon that <a href=\"http:\/\/nextbus.com\">Next Bus<\/a>, the company providing the GPS tracker, is going to <strong>disable the arrival time feeds for all routes except for the Spadina 510 and the Harbourfront 509 streetcars<\/strong>. The TTC said all other routes are not GPS-to-web enabled. Next Bus is only providing estimated times on the other routes since the info is being pulled from the schedule and not the location of\u00a0 the nearest streetcar. The TTC said Next Bus does not want to provide information to the public that is not yet reliable. Give them credit, though, for not disabling the entire feed and allowing the public to &#8220;experiment&#8221; with the accurate info from the 509 and 510 routes.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who were using the Next Bus web site this morning and finding it to be accurate: it seems we were slightly fooled. It just meant that the TTC streetcars were running on time according to their schedule. 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