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Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer

(buildmytransit.nyc)
199 points HeavenFox | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | source

Hello HN!

As a long term NYC resident, I have read countless articles on ideas tweaking subway services, but always found them hard to follow without visual aid. So over the long weekend I decided to build one. It has all the basic features: trains would spawn at their origin, stop at stations, and slow down if it gets too close to another. You can also design custom routes by piecing tracks together.

Have fun, and let me know what you think!

1. chrisxlucas ◴[11 Jul 25 23:03 UTC] No.44537676[source]▶
This is awesome—a sandbox for transit nerds lol my husband will love this. The dwell time + simulation rate sliders are super fun, can do a lot with congestion indicators or bottleneck flags when trains start stacking up or something... fun to stress test bad routing decisions.