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by yoan9224 185 days ago
Really polished UI. The real-time train positions are a nice touch.

One UX issue on desktop: the train detail panel being fixed to the bottom feels awkward. Consider making it a floating panel or sidebar that doesn't block the map.

Also the arrival/departure times showing "hundreds of minutes" is confusing. Anything over 90 minutes should probably display as hours:minutes instead.

Great work overall though. I've seen plenty of official government transit sites that look worse than this.
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trinix912 185 days ago
> Also the arrival/departure times showing "hundreds of minutes" is confusing. Anything over 90 minutes should probably display as hours:minutes instead.

Would help with usability but overall seeing this is pretty normal in my part of Europe. I've seen 200+ min delays, written just like that, many times.

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hopelite 185 days ago
Is there any point of using cumulative minutes rather than standard time format that I may not be considering?

Is that something that should be improved? Or is that just a “we’ve always done it that way but no one knows why, so we are going to just keep doing it that way” thing?

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