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Probably a needed move (and timely with the recent upsurge in Reform UK wins). Deliveroo has been running on a regulatory arbitrage -- it got to decent size in the UK due to lax laws on low quality/illegal immigration. If that has an expiry date approaching (it looks like it does), to maintain its scale it has to plan for a technological shift in the way it operates -- it is too small to do that by itself. DoorDash isn't.

Thanks for the feedback! Will try out the UI suggestion. I have encountered that hard refresh issue also and will fix it.

Some background:

I made this site because over the years I've had a lot of experiences where the official Transport for London Tube (metro) statuses were wrong (e.g. ‘Good Service’ when there were delays or ‘Severe Delays’ when it wasn't that bad). I looked into it towards the end of last year and apparently TfL staff set them manually (using guidelines). It isn't really a 21st century way of doing things (it’s at least slow/inexact/inconsistent, and probably prone to truth bending etc.), so I ended up creating TrueTubeStatus.com. It monitors trains across the London Underground (using TfL’s API) and compares live performance with timetables to produce objective statuses.

A few ways it can be useful:

Peace of mind that an official ‘Good Service’ status is backed up by the maths.

When it shows a delay that TfL isn’t reporting you can dodge it (delay your journey, change your route etc.) or at least brace yourself!

You can see recent performance in a color-coded sparkline (mini chart without axes), which tells you how good/bad things are and where they’re headed.

I’ve just put it in open beta and would be very interested to know what people think!

Sorry about that - will look into it.

Interesting. Many thanks.