He was pronounced dead at the scene.Īccording to an NTSB preliminary report, the door system did not perform properly that night, leading to the tragedy. Lalin got his right arm stuck in the door and was dragged more than 100 feet along the platform, onto a lower surface near the tracks, according to a National Transportation and Safety Board report. Stefan is not responsible for inaccurate data from the MBTA - only the visualization of that data.Get Boston local news, weather forecasts, lifestyle and entertainment stories to your inbox. The data behind this app is provided by the MBTA.Ĭontact MBTA is not responsible for this application - only the data that feeds it. Register for free and then you can contact Note: Train information is from the MBTA and is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate. This application © 2021 by Stefan Wuensch. I do in fact use this for my own commute, to and from Boston, five days a week!

It can be used for trip prediction with great success. Although I didn't design this to be an application for daily commuters, This application is designed to be a mapping and visualization tool for those interested in subway operations. iPhone users can scroll this page up & down by dragging the white borders on the left and right of the map. AlsoĪ spacebar press should scroll the entire page down in most browsers. If you want to scroll this entire web page up or down you need to first position the cursor on the white space outside the Google Map pane. Page scrolling note: In most web browsers, the normal page scrolling movements up or down using a mouse wheel or trackpad (or page up / page down keys) are interpreted by Google Maps to beĪ Zoom In / Zoom Out or map movement action.

This web application is able to detect popular mobile devices (for example iPhone and Android) and should display a mobile version of the map when viewed on a handheld device. In the options section ( number 4) you can choose to show theĭestination, on-board display sign, direction, and more. Train position markers can be set to indicate many different things. Marker clusters can be quickly toggled on/off by pressing the 'Shift' key. (Clusters appear when there are too many trains in one area to reasonably show individual markers.) Marker clusters can be turned off in the options section, number 8.Īlso, marker clusters will come and go as you zoom in and out using the standard Google Map navigation methods. If red clusters of markers are being displayed, click / tap on the cluster icon to zoom in and see more or all of the trains in that cluster. While following a train, the map will move so that the train you've selected will remain in the center of the map until you stop following it, or until it no longer appears in the data feed. Click / tap the car number link in the pop-up info window of a train marker.

Click or tap on the car number in the table of mapped trains.

Choose a train (by leading car number) from the lists (Option 2).

You can 'follow' a train to its destination by any one of four methods: (Mobile device users double-tap.) When zoomed in, a double-click or double-tap on the marker will instead zoom back out to the region overview. Tip: to quickly dismiss an info balloon, press the 'Escape' key.Ī double-click on a marker will zoom in on that train. (Mobile device users tap on a marker.)Ī link in the info balloon lets you view the official MBTA schedule for that line and direction on You can move your cursor over a train marker on the map to have an information balloon pop up with detail about that train.

Subway train position data are typically updated every 15 seconds. This page will automatically load new train data from the MBTA as they become available. This application displays MBTA Subway trains on a Google Map in real time. Instructions & Information: (Jump back up to top)

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