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		kelnos on Sept 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't like iOS6's (lack of) transit directions? Yo... It might be speed. I've written an app for SF using the NextBus API, and it is slow. In the time it would take to return the live times for a particular route at a particular stop, Google has already given me four possible routes (and has helpfully gotten me a glass of water, as well).

jarek on Sept 20, 2012 [–]

True. In my experiences scraping Vancouver's Translink, I can get a prediction in about a second or so, but not fully reliably.

On the other hand, if there's anyone that could speed up receiving, processing, and retrieving lots of rapidly changing data, it might be Google.

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