TrainCheck: Riding the Subway Just got a Little Easier

An innovative new service called TrainCheck (www.traincheck.com) lets you check the timing of the next few trains at your stop -- before you go down into the station. No more paying your fare just to face a 20 minute wait; no more catching a cab when the next train was only two minutes away. Best of all, TrainCheck is free -- all you need is a mobile phone.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) March 11, 2006 -- An innovative new service called TrainCheck (www.traincheck.com) lets you check the timing of the next few trains at your stop -- before you go down into the station. No more paying your fare just to face a 20-minute wait; no more catching a cab when the next train was only two minutes away. Best of all, TrainCheck is free -- all you need is a mobile phone.

Just send a text message to TrainCheck and the service responds within moments, replying with the next three train times at any subway station you request. It's simple and fast.

Long popular in Europe, text messaging is soaring in the US. Over 7 billion text messages were sent in June 2005 -- up from the 2.9 billion the previous year. The total number of text messages sent has doubled each year since 2000. With 95% of all active cellular telephones in the US having text-messaging capability, TrainCheck is available to almost anyone with a mobile phone.

TrainCheck focuses on giving people the best possible information available at the moment they need it most -- especially when they are on the go. Better information also benefits transit systems looking for innovative ways to increase ridership.

"We are trying to expand the TrainCheck service and raise awareness among public transit authorities across the country," said Bartosz Solowiej, co-developer. "It's a new way to make their information accessible to the general public."

TrainCheck currently services San Francisco's BART and Washington, DC's Metro. More cities will be added throughout 2006.

More about TrainCheck:

TrainCheck is the latest application by UI Designer Frank Harris and Engineer Bartosz Solowiej. They do not own cars. TrainCheck launched February 20, 2006 in San Francisco and Washington, DC. In recent news, TrainCheck won 3rd place at a software contest in Mountain View, CA, where leading members of the software community applauded its simplicity and day-to-day usefulness.

TrainCheck is powered by Django, a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

For more information visit www.traincheck.com.

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