Frustrated Penn Station commuter creates app to predict track numbers — and avoid the stampede: ‘They’re like animals’

Longtime NJ Transit sufferer Joshua Crandall was fed up feeling the pent-up energy of his fellow stressed-out rail riders, standing around waiting — tired of the trample-or-be-trampled, chaotic mad dashes that inevitably followed. So, he created a track-predicting app any Big Apple commuter can use.