I launched a site to track NJT delays and estimate the "cost" to riders and the regional economy. Help me fine-tune it?
Hi all, I'm an NJT commuter like you, posting anonymously. I want to help people who don't take NJT every day understand the real cost of delays, to us and the regional economy.
To help develop that thinking, I launched a site called NJT Delay Tracker. Hosted at bettertrains.org, the site scrapes daily NJT delay alerts and washes them through an estimation process that I developed to come up with a total "cost," in hours and dollars, for each day's worth of delays. That "cost" then gets posted to Bluesky, the website, and integrated into a running total that users can see through a data dashboard.
I'd love your thoughts on the project. Let me know what you think and how I can improve it!!! (Fellow policy nerds, my methodology is all public on the site.)
And, if you like it, please share broadly!
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