Observed arrival · 2026-10-03
Deadhead turns NYC buses into a live race
A live-tracking experiment that ranks MTA buses by how far ahead of schedule they are running.
○Open
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$Paid
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✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
- For
- New York transit watchers and bus enthusiasts
- Worth noticing
- It defines a deadhead as a bus running empty, then makes that transit term the premise of its citywide chase.
Field notes
The page says each bus reports a GPS position roughly every 30 seconds; it logs those fixes, compares pace against timetable, and says the leaderboard refreshes each minute. MTA Bus Time is named as the data source. The extracted homepage is an explainer with two links rather than a displayed leaderboard snapshot, so the live operation is described but not independently demonstrated here.
Observed signals
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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