If you’ve ever been stuck waiting, frustrated, for your train or bus to arrive in and around Philadelphia, you might be familiar with Doug Muth’s site, Is SEPTA Fucked?

SEPTA, one of Philadelphians’ most love-to-hate institutions, has an official Twitter account to deal with passenger complaints, questions or timing issues. But sometimes, you need the bigger picture.

Muth’s site, which assesses the current status of buses, trolleys, subways and regional rails in the area, will give you an answer ranging from Not Fucked (running pretty much on time) to Turbo Fucked (you may never, ever get home). The software engineer who lives in Ardmore and works in Center City built the site about seven years ago with Node.js running the Express Webserver on Heroku.

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