Bus Stop Direction Labels

[Nick Spreen]

I'm trying to find out the direction for all bus stops. As in the two letter heading (i.e. NW)

For the subway there seems to be two columns in MTA_Subway_Stations.csv from data ny gov

I can't find a similar resource for the bus. I *can* confirm that https://bustime.mta.info/api/where/stop/MTA_id.json returns this ID but I'm unsure what the API limits look like. Downloading all 1844 stops might take a while if I cannot do more than 60 requests per 3600 seconds.

I couldn't find anything online about a limit apart from this estimate that seems to be wrong, because I was able to do more than 60 requests in 1 minute but I don't want to run into the limit and get blocked.

— Nick

[Nick Spreen]

Since there wasn't a response I went with crawling all stations that way.

Here's an issue though: These stops don't have a direction

803153
903230
903346
903233
803154
903209
402102
803109
904920
903229
803215

Can anyone tell me why that is?

[Nick Spreen]

After checking other boroughs, none of these have a direction:

402102, 803109, 803153, 803154, 803215, 903209, 903229, 903230, 903233, 903346, 904920, 103196, 104531, 104532, 404250, 802148, 802164, 902079, 902109, 902209, 304083, 501402, 501623, 502550, 503491, 503721, 503863, 551130, 552028, 552095, 982067, 200771, 200775, 803031, 803042, 803220, 803221, 805002, 805031, 805032, 805033, 805034, 805035, 805036, 805037, 805038, 805039, 805043, 805113, 805114, 805115, 805116, 805117, 805118, 805154, 805158, 805159, 805160, 805161, 805162, 901108, 901109, 901110, 901111, 901112, 901113, 901114, 901116, 901169, 901171, 901177, 903167, 903208, 905041, 905063, 905121, 905122, 905148, 905149, 905150, 905153, 905160, 905214, 500668, 503102, 503103, 503106, 503174, 503728, 503842, 503970, 802124, 804017, 804042, 901449, 901450, 901451, 904005, 904006, 904016, 904047, 904107, 904384, 904977, 304373, 308062, 308644, 450372, 801052, 801089, 801107, 801108, 801145, 801152, 801195, 801197, 801199, 801200, 801204, 801205, 901165, 901172, 901176, 901190, 901193, 901194, 901195, 901196, 901197, 901200, 901201, 901236, 901311, 901442, 901444, 901465, 901473, 901494

138 out of the ~15k stops

[Dillon Shen-Cruz]

Hi Nick, thanks for flagging this. I spot-checked a few stops you've listed, and none of them had "routesAvailable" listed. I believe the shape of service is necessary to infer stopDirection for a given stop. As an example, here's the metadata for the first stop you listed above: https://bustime.mta.info/api/stop-for-id?_=1731694315751&stopId=MTA_803153.