OCEAN CITY — The development of a mobile app allowing the public to track the locations and time estimates for Ocean City municipal buses could be expedited by the recent failures of the town’s existing system for the same purpose.
For the last year or more, Ocean City officials have been exploring an online application for cell phones and other mobile devices that would allow visitors and residents to track the locations of the municipal buses in operation and more accurately estimate their arrival times at bus stops up and down the strip. The city’s transportation sommittee for months has been researching the various companies that provide the service and has narrowed the choice of vendors down to one, but recent glitches throughout the summer in the Auto Vehicle Locator (AVL) system currently used by the city’s transportation department could result in a two-pronged system that would improve the city’s in-house system while providing the same service to the bus-riding public.
During Monday’s meeting, Mayor Rick Meehan said the transportation committee had been getting closer to choosing a vendor to provide the bus-tracking app for the public when it learned the city’s own system had suffered significant downtime this summer. In an office above the south end of the Boardwalk, Ocean City transit officials watch a bank of computer monitors and video screens that allow supervisors to track the locations of the municipal bus fleet traveling up and down Coastal Highway on most busy summer days.
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Key West has had a system like this for years.
ReplyDeleteFire those Micro managing Supervisors there who harassed
ReplyDeletedrivers and treated Public passengers very wrongly ......
There is a "Click" there that needs to END .......
That office above the boardwalk is one of the problems
ReplyDeletethat needs to be Done away with.........
Micro managing drivers from there and sneaking around on
the roads watching them unnecessary.......leave them alone
or many won't come back for another season ..........
Supervisors were Rude to passengers , yelling at them,
packing them on forcefully after stopping and holding buses
just to throw their authority around.....Bad for Business !!
Drunk on 16th street stop just crapped his pants, 5 minute delay. What a great app!!
ReplyDeleteThese drivers need to be monitored by cameras on the buses!
ReplyDeleteTruly a waste given City FAILs track record on doing anything or ATTEMPTING to do anything. The bus system is what it is - people movers. Don't need a "app" to get on the bus - stand at the bus stop just like you have for YEARS.
ReplyDeleteFigure out how to get people in the hotel rooms mid week so you can make more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and decrease my taxes!
Stop figuring out how to fix car or bike weeks. Most are gray beards with loads of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, who want to spend said $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Placing obstacles (trailer fees, ticketing) to the hands that feed you only discourages a return. There is a minority of hell raisers - get your summer hire officers in 2 weeks early to address the hell raisers! KEEP your summer hire officers 2 weeks later for bike week. Place them at known burnout areas which have been featured on YOUTUBE for years!!!! ENFORCEMENT!
Do something about the degenerates on the boardwalk, at the south end bus station area AND the bathrooms on the boardwalk!
Do SOMETHING!
Travel on your own risk App.
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