Third Rail vs Stroller NYC

It's 2026. Our city has the best subway system in the country. Why does it still feel like none of the trains run on time? I can't fix the delays, but at least I can help you route around them. Third Rail tells you when your train will arrive, but the countdown times I've got here aren't available in any other app. I spent months building a custom computer algorithm that detects delayed trains, and predicts much more precisely when your train will arrive. • BETTER TRAIN ETAS: when a train is running smoothly, Third Rail estimates the exact second it will arrive. • DELAY ESTIMATES: many minor delays are never officially announced by the MTA, and even official delay alerts don't say which exact trains will be late, or how late they might be. Third Rail detects delays before the MTA announces them, and shows a range of possible times a late train might arrive. • A PRETTY MAP: I manually redrew every train line in the city to make the map easier to read. The colored lines between stations show actual current conditions, so you can quickly check nightly reroutes and stations with canceled weekend service. • OFFLINE MODE: Even when you lose service underground between stations, Third Rail remembers arrival times from the last time you had internet. • PRIVATE BY DEFAULT: Third Rail does not collect your location data for analytics or advertising purposes. Your location never leaves your phone. • Independently owned and designed in NYC. Get to your destination in a single touch with Third Rail, the unofficial guide to the New York City subway.

Every parent with a stroller has done it: carried the whole thing down a flight of stairs because the elevator at the station was out, and nobody said so until you got there. Stroller NYC plans subway trips that only enter, leave and change trains at stations whose elevators are working right now. Not stations that are accessible on paper: stations where the elevator is running at the moment you search, checked against the MTA's live elevator feed. • Accessible A-to-B subway routes across all of NYC • Live elevator outages, by station and by platform • NEW: which part of the train to board (front, middle or back) so you step off right by the elevator (beta) • Route maps with walking paths and the exact spot of the street elevator • Real train countdowns for the platform you're actually boarding from • Knows which platform each elevator reaches, so it won't send you uptown from a station that's only accessible downtown • Alerts when an elevator on your route breaks • Save home, daycare and recent trips with a free account • Works underground: your plan stays on screen when the signal doesn't Made for parents with strollers, and just as useful in a wheelchair, with a walker, a suitcase or a bad knee: anyone who needs the elevator to actually work. Built by one parent in Brooklyn. Not affiliated with the MTA.