It's probably been close to a year since the iPhone-optimized DC metro status page Meenster.com vanished from the scene (it now resolves to a blank page.) For those of us who ride the metro regularly, knowing when the next train will arrive before you enter the station is a major convenience -- especially given last month's tragic metro collision and subsequent service disruption.

Well, wait no longer - the DC metro on your iPhone is back!

http://echodittolabs.org/wmata

With fabled AT&T coverage coming in October, you'll never miss a train again.

And now for the nerdy details:

We're not using any of WMATA's APIs or feeds, but rather just old fashioned screen scraping using regex. Since the train status pages on wmata.com are already pretty handsome, I elected just to scrape out the body and wrap it in Joe Hewitt's excellent iPhone CSS.

Suggestions, complaints? Drop me a note!