I've hated the Long Island Rail Road site for a really long time. The worst part of using the site is that half the time you have to do it from your phone. Even with an iPhone, it's just really terrible.

So, I set out to solve this problem. My main goal for the initial version was to tackle the ease of use on a mobile device issue.

Features for the first version:

• Remembers your last station selections.
• Let's you easily reverse direction for your ride home.
• Auto selects current hour as the start hour for the search.
• Auto selects the current day type (weekday or weekend).
• Displays transfer stations.
• Displays whether a train is peak or not.

Some ideas for the future:

• Ability to SMS yourself the currently displayed schedule.
• Ability to quickly see the next or previous set of trains before or after the currently displayed schedule. For example, if the last train of the currently displayed schedule leaves at 7:30am, by clicking 'See later trains' or 'See earlier trains', you won't have to re-enter any search parameters.
• SMS gateway for accepting schedule queries.