The reason Amtrak's national and NE Twitter items are never realtime is what ? Not paying their membership dues to Musk ? Amtrak IT department and servers asleep at the switch ?
Musk probably added pay toilets to X HQ. You can't even view direct links with full comments after the switch if not logged in. No thanks.I suspect a little from column A and a little from column B. The posts are identical to the notices on Amtrak.com, so they are probably using an API to post them to X/Twitter. But the API has been a mess since Musk took over.
Meanwhile, Southern California's Metrolink alerts/status updates continue to appear on X.On this issue I really couldn’t care less if Amtrak dumps Twitter/X altogether. Musk in his quest to be a political influencer and mess with the apis has created this situation. Amtrak does need to find another way to get the alerts out there in an easy manner for customers but I’d have no issues if it wasn’t on this platform.
I wonder if this will continue after Musk decides to impose a subscription charge for posting. Worse still if he imposes one for reading in order to keep those pesky little snooping bots at bayMeanwhile, Southern California's Metrolink alerts/status updates continue to appear on X.
I am puzzled. At one time on the Amtrak service notices and alerts there was an additional 2 boxes that had national alerts and Northeast alerts. boxes were to right of station advisories. They were identical to the twitter postings so used them instead until they disappeared from this link. What happened to those?
https://www.amtrak.com/alert.html
They were identical because they were links to the Twitter posts.I am puzzled. At one time on the Amtrak service notices and alerts there was an additional 2 boxes that had national alerts and Northeast alerts. boxes were to right of station advisories. They were identical to the twitter postings so used them instead until they disappeared from this link. What happened to those?
https://www.amtrak.com/alert.html
While Amtrak should find a platform/method to do what you suggest / I have no issue with Amtrak moving away from a platform if the primary motivation of that platform is to score points with ideological do nothing political hacks. While I have respect for some of Mr. musk’s accomplishments I have little patience for his and others desire for recognition for some of the ideological purity do nothingsNot acceptable.
I don't want a subscription to get emails and texts, but want to see them only when I choose to.
Most transit rail systems have systemwide alerts navigable from their home page accessible by anyone and not by querying a specific train.
Amtrak Status Maps - Delays
Amtrak Status Maps is now recording the delay information that Amtrak posts via the "Train Status" tab on its website. The delay information (if any) can be gotten by clicking on a train symbol on a map or by selecting the record for an archived train.
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However they do not post alerts about every train anymore. 'Minor' delays will only be found using the train status page.Amtrak alerts and Amtrak Northeast are both active on twitter or X
It says at the top that they only post alerts that affect 2 or more trains. 98 is almost 3 hours late, and nothing on Twitter. It does show an alert on the Train Status on the website.However they do not post alerts about every train anymore. 'Minor' delays will only be found using the train status page.
Not sure what you mean by ‘at the top’.It says at the top that they only post alerts that affect 2 or more trains. 98 is almost 3 hours late, and nothing on Twitter. It does show an alert on the Train Status on the website.
At the top of their Twitter feed:Not sure what you mean by ‘at the top’.
Yeah, I found that on Dixieland Software after I saw @John Bobinyec post about it above. Seems to be the only place you can reliably find reasons for delays now.Btw, I’ve found that the ‘dixielandsoftware’ page seems to archive the delay info.
https://dixielandsoftware.net/cgi-bin/gettrain.pl?seltrain=98&selyear=2024&selmonth=06&selday=14
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