New York, NY – BlackBerry as a Weapon in the Fight to Commute

New York, NY – Information is the lifeblood of commuters in distress, and the lack of it — which is very common — can create mass confusion, like this summer, when New York subway riders were stranded for hours by heavy rains and received little direction from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Clever Commute, is a free service that distributes updates sent by hundreds of riders on New Jersey Transit, as well as the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad, about train and bus delays that they are witnessing firsthand

users of Clever Commute, who are able sign up for alerts on eight train lines in New Jersey, as well as other rail, bus and ferry lines, can ask fellow riders about delays up the track — or even if anyone has found a bag left on a specific train.

Web site clevercommute.com [nytimes]