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<title>Chicago Transit Authority alerts</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:57:59 +0100</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">cta-opml</guid>
<category domain="https://envs.net/~lucidiot/rsrsss/">OPML</category>
<category domain="https://envs.net/~lucidiot/rsrsss/">Transport</category>
<link>https://envs.net/~lucidiot/rsrsss/opml/cta.opml</link>
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<p>I sometimes find myself a little bored by the list of feeds I would like to share on this feed. Quite a lot of them are blogs, and sharing a lot of blogs quickly gets repetitive. I am far more interested in the more unusual uses of RSS, like the RSS feeds of cyclones I shared a little while ago. So I occasionally look up some random keywords next to "RSS feed" in a search engine. I stumbled upon <a href="https://www.transitchicago.com/rss/default.aspx" target="_blank">the Chicago Transit Authority's RSS feeds</a>, and I was pleased by the sheer amount of them, but also by what they provide.</p>
<p>I like using RSS feeds as a means of getting not just blog posts. Getting warnings about delays or changes on a commute over RSS sounds really nice. Getting the kind of information that people think they need phone notifications for, or the kind of information companies want to you think you need a mobile app full of data collection for. And most importantly, getting it all into a system designed to handle a large amount of information, to sort it, to filter it, to display it conveniently, instead of just a sort of tray that doesn't fit more than a few notifications.</p>
<p>This reminds me of a BlackBerry Q5 I used before I switched to OnePlus. BlackBerry OS 10 is just Android with a BlackBerry UI, and its notification center was quite nice and could clearly better handle a large amount of notifications than Android or iOS' default interfaces. I guess this is just what happens when you design something to be used for more than just doomscrolling and swiping left or right on random faces.</p>
<p>Anyway, since I like to get all the interesting feeds neatly organized into even more XML, <a href="https://tildegit.org/lucidiot/rsrsss/commit/8921e100fac29789c9321af5b57fa2b4cd0444ed/" target="_blank">I wrote a script</a> to generate an OPML file for all the Chicago Transit Authority feeds. Since they provide feeds for both a single line or category of alerts and for all at once, you'll get duplicates if you import that, but at least you will know about all the available feeds.</p>
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