TriMet Transit Tracker SMS Alerts

Posted by Christian in Public Transportation Culture on Sep 10th, 2008 | 4 comments

Don’t have the time to navigate through TriMet’s Transit Tracker or don’t have the phone capable to do so?  Get Transit Tracker SMS alerts instead!

I’ve tested this out and it worked perfectly.  The unfortunate thing is that you need to know the stop ID of the particular stop you want times for.  Here were the results that came back in 3 seconds to my iPhone when I checked up a close Stop ID:

I checked TriMet’s Transit Tracker on their site and compared numbers and it was spot on!

Here’s what you can do to get TriMet Transit Tracker SMS Alerts:

  • Set up a text to go to 368674
  • Text “pdxt {stop_id}” to that number
  • So an example text message would look like: pdxt 704
  • Within seconds, you’ll receive your results

Pretty nifty if you’re on the run and want an up-to-the-minute tracker info (thanks to the Hazelnut blog for blogging about this).



4 Responses to “ “TriMet Transit Tracker SMS Alerts”

  1. indy says:
    September 10, 2008 at 9:39 am

    One wonders why the requirement for the “pdxt” ?

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  2. Amber Case says:
    September 10, 2008 at 9:41 am

    Sam Keen, the developer, plans to release versions that have less text required to get data. Currently it’s just one of his side projects. :)

    You can see more at http://pdxt.org/ or can contact him on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/samkeen

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  3. Christian says:
    September 10, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Thanks for the additional info, Amber, and thanks for blogging about it :)

    Reply
  4. Jason McHuff says:
    September 10, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    Chris Smith set up text messaged-arrivals over a year ago.

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