The idea
Hitch ‘n Bitch started out life as Fix the Freakin’ Buses.
The team
James Hanlon
Sam Collins
Roberta Knox
Douglas Greenshields
Roderick Hodgson
John Turner
What they built
Hitch ‘n Bitch is all about making buses easier to use. On the ‘hitch’ portion of the site you input where you’re going from together with the route you want to take and the site tells you when your next bus is due in real time. The ‘bitch’ section of the site asks you where you’re traveling to and lets you post feedback about the bus - whether it’s late, over-crowded or unclean. The idea is that this content could be fed back to the transport provider to make the service better.
It’s a great hack that powerfully demonstrates the potential of releasing this kind of data openly for developers to get their teeth into. The site is using a bus company’s data for Edinburgh at the moment, but has been promised access to information which will allow the team to extend the service shortly.
And here’s what they built:
June 24th, 2009 at 10:54 am
[…] Hitch ‘n Bitch is all about making buses easier to use. On the ‘hitch’ portion of the site you input where you’re going from together with the route you want to take and the site tells you when your next bus is due in real time. The ‘bitch’ section of the site asks you where you’re traveling to and lets you post feedback about the bus - whether it’s late, over-crowded or unclean. The idea is that this content could be fed back to the transport provider to make the service better. […]
June 24th, 2009 at 11:08 am
[…] Hitch ‘n Bitch is all about making buses easier to use. On the ‘hitch’ portion of the site you input where you’re going from together with the route you want to take and the site tells you when your next bus is due in real time. The ‘bitch’ section of the site asks you where you’re traveling to and lets you post feedback about the bus - whether it’s late, over-crowded or unclean. The idea is that this content could be fed back to the transport provider to make the service better. […]