This is weird…Just found out there is a RSS Feed for the F Train ….and I just happen to take the F Train from time to time because I live close to that subway line (usually I take express buses and don't bother much with the Subway).  I got this information about RSS Feeds of the F Train from The RSS Marketing Diary.

But the RSS Marketing Diary thinks the F Train RSS feed was not done the right way:

"….The essential idea of course is good –> use RSS to get your latest and most important content to your prospects and customers. Train schedules certainly seem relevant enough for someone in NYC to subscribe to them.

But again, someone is missing the point.

If I want to know about train schedules and changes, I don't care about all schedules and changes. I just care about the routes I take.

If I'm only taking the Queens-bound route, don't talk to me about Manhattan-bound trains.

F Trains, great idea, but now makes this a little more usable and allow people to select which routes they're interested in and then give them an RSS feed just for those."

Well, in this case, I disagree. 

You can take the train in both directions (I don't know where Rok Hrastnik lives - maybe he does live in NYC, but I doubt it). 

Fact is, if your taking the train from Brooklyn into Manhattan or Queens  (say your going to work) and coming back home (to Brooklyn)….you will be taking the train both ways.  Sure, you could make a different feed for each direction of the F Train if you wanted - maybe that was Rok's point.  It this case I'm not sure it makes much sense to do that.

I think the F Train subscription is a great thing and ought to be expanded. Every public transportation or road you take could, in fact, be monitored by satellite, or just by people keeping information up to date and disseminated by RSS Feeds to interested subscribers - who pick it up on their mobile devices (I can read my RSS feeds quite well on my TMobile Sidekick 3 that does a good job with Google Reader).

So, the idea is to get data for all the routes your normally going to take and be notified where there's a problem just before you arrive - so you can avoid it - or attempt to avoid it, hopefully with a better choice of route or public transportation.