Sure beats calling the MTA

[trinityvixen]

Hopstop NYC! You can get directions for bus and subway, plus or minus walking (if you don't mind that sort of thing). I'm not sure if it's able to work out express versus local, but it accurately gave me my work commute and one other that I tried, so worth a gander, if ever you need to figure out how to get from here to there in the city.

ETA: All right, so now the rest of you have sounded off and mentioned other sites for navigating the big apple. Why the hell didn't you share them, then!?

Comments

[earthrise.livejournal.com]

Man, Hopstop has been my one of my most-oft-visited sites for months now. Spread the word, nobody should go without!

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I've been using them a bit lately, mostly when Straphangers' subway map wasn't working. Sometimes Hopstop gives you some outlandish directions (akin to Mapquest's occasional defects) but it at least gives you an idea of how to get around, and then you can use common sense.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Not exactly the most efficient path finder, but not bad at all. I tested it out with my home to work path. It didn't catch one transfer that would have saved both time and walking distance. Still it's pretty damn good all things considering. Using Songlines with this, I can see this taking off.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

You would think that the pathfinding would be better, since it's such a clearly laid-out map. Perhaps they don't have the path weights defined correctly or something?