Some hidden TriMet website goodies
I work on the web everyday so I’ve seen many instances of websites having old materials on their servers. As such, I thought I’d dig around TriMet’s website to see if there was anything interesting of note that was buried within the site. Interestingly enough, I found a couple of interesting things.
First, I found an Excel file that has fare prices listed from 1970 through 2006. Kind of neat to see how fare prices have gone up through the years. You can download that file here: http://www.trimet.org/temp/fares/1970_2006_fare_prices.xls
I also found an Interactive Scheduling Manual complete with some awesome little old animated graphics and the like. It also includes a pretty cool glossary of a whole slew of terms related to the transit industry. You can see this interactive scheduling manual here: http://www.trimet.org/temp/trimetscheduling/trimet.html
Some old webstats (April 2006) for us website analytics junkies can be found here (specific info includes website referrals along with traffic from search engines): http://trimet.org/webstats/hits.htm
Didn’t find much info with this but it’s up-to-date (May 21, 2009) so perhaps they refresh this content monthly? Anyway, something to look out for month-to-month: http://www.trimet.org/schedule/new/
And that’s it. Hey! I didn’t say I found incredibly interesting goodies; just ‘goodies’!
*EDIT* Yep took them down the day I posted. Booo! Perhaps I can find these files on my laptop..
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Oh man… Well someone at Trimet must read this blog because not only did they remove most of the pages you reference above, but they also removed the awesome TVM Status Page:
http://www.trimet.org/tvmstatus/
That’s right, they had a real-time updated page of the status of every ticket machine including any errors or outages.