Create your own Metro kiosk display

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Greg Tracy

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Dec 11, 2011, 10:48:37 PM12/11/11

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I recently got a request to create another kiosk display like the one shown at Mother Fool's coffee house andSector67. Rather then build another one by hand, I went ahead and created a template that enables anyone to display a custom kiosk.

Very similar to the Google Gadget, there is a single URL that anyone can point their browser at to view real-time arrival estimates for any two stops in the Metro system.

http://smsmybus.com/kiosk?s=0100,0161&d=WORK,HOME

The two, four digit numbers after the 's=' string in that URL indicate the stop IDs to display. The two direction labels are optional, but if you include them, order matters. They should correspond to the stops listed.