MetrO 5.4.2 bug

M. Yawitz reported an annoying bug in the latest release.

It affects only Palm users who installed files for Hokkaido, Kyoto/Osaka, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo and/or Tokyo on an external memory card. These cities are listed under "garbage" names in the city list. No other side-effect should occur.

I have fixed this problem and you may download again the MetrO package if you're affected.

New York

S. White reported a minor error on one of the New Jersey Transit lines in New York (USA). I took the opportunity to check and improve the trip times on the NJT rail lines.

Lost mail about Frankfurt

I have reasons to believe that a mail about some changes in Frankfurt (Germany) was flagged as spam by Yahoo! Mail and disappeared before I could read it.

If the person who sent it read this could she/he try again? Sorry for the inconvenience...

Busan

J. Shim reported the opening of a new subway line in Busan (Korea), which I missed at the end of 2005... He also noticed minor errors in the Seoul & Incheon databases.

Newcastle upon Tyne

M. Dulerm sent me a number of bus lines to add to our Newcastle upon Tyne (England) database.

Madrid

Another line (#7) is affected by works in the Madrid subway, until the end of September. N. Knapp sent me a notice.

MetrO 5.4.2

The new release is out, without much change on the programs but with more than 30 cities updated.

See the details on the MetrO web site.

Paris (works)

Line 6 is closed between Place d'Italie & Bercy, from today until September 1st. Download the updated "temporary" files:

• Paris-travaux (complete rail network)
• Paris-full-travaux (inner city subway, bus and RER networks - not usable on a Palm device)
  

Next update planned on Saturday, July 1st.

Brest

M. Pouliquen reported a few minor errors on our Brest (France) database and suggested the addition of the "Bus des Plages" ("Beaches bus") running during the summer.

Paris (works)

Line 14 will close entirely tomorrow at 22:00 (a shuttle bus will operate between Gare de Lyon & Bibliothèque F. Mitterand). Download the updated "temporary" files:

• Paris-travaux (complete rail network)
• Paris-full-travaux (inner city subway, bus and RER networks - not usable on a Palm device)
  

Next update planned on Monday, June 26th (an important one!).

Wien/Vienna

With the help of M. Holzer, I am trying to update the night bus network for Wien/Vienna (Austria) which has changed a lot since our last revision.

Seoul

J. Shim submitted a significant update for the Seoul (Korea) network, in its korean version. I also reported some changes in the "alphabetic" version.

Spammers

If the stupid guy from "Car Seats" does not stop trashing this blog, I will have to restrict comments to registered users again.

I would be sorry for the inconvenience induced to our legitimate readers.

Beijing

L. Freund provided some information for our Beijing (China) database, which will improve the program's accuracy over estimated trip times.

Paris

Among a series of minor changes in our various Paris (France) databases, I have added the new "Musée du Quai Branly" which opens tomorrow. Unfortunately it is quite far from any subway station (about 15 min. by walk, in a rather nice place, however).