New CTA Website Changes the World
Tuesday December 16, 2008
The CTA website has long been a source of great ire for many Chicagoans. But today the CTA unveiled an amazing new website that is changing the game forever. It’s infinity times better than the old CTA website that managed to be both completely unusable and hideously ugly. We wish we had a screen shot for you–it looked like it was created the day after the internet was invented and then never further modified. Now we are blessed to receive this:
It’s clean and intuitive enough to serve its purpose. Each route now has its own homepage and a system status widget on the right side of the page under the new trip planner. We are thrilled. Thank you, CTA. (Hat tip: Chicagoist)
December 16th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Changes the world? They bury the link to RSS feeds at the bottom (hello - autodiscovery!) and the mobile site is lame - download PDFs?!
Check out Boston’s MBTA Web site - I’m more of a fan of it.
mp/m
December 17th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Ha! Mike, I think I’ll have to charge you with being a bit too pedantic on this one. The old site was about as convenient as consulting the Oracle of Delphi for information, and you’re going to drag this new one through the mud over some poorly placed RSS feed links? While every site (save for The Hot Iron, of course) could probably be improved in some fashion, I’m sticking by the argument that this is leaps and bounds ahead of anything I could have expected from CTA with regard to web presence.