In November, a company called Roadify officially launched ParkingAroundMe (PAM), and received quite a bit of  interest on blogs and local news shows.

And why not? Parking is every New Yorker’s nightmare. And here is a company that’s trying to make it less of one.

This social experiment in parking is starting in Park Slope with plans to expand as they are offering a completely free service to people who are looking for a parking spot or real-time bus transit information. It is text messaged based and can also be used via a Twitter app for those with smart phones.

And this is how it works: when a commuter leaves a parking spot they text GIVE and the location they are leaving  (Example. ‘GIVE 13th st btwn 6/7 ave’) to 95495. This is then entered into an online database managed by Roadify. People circling the block, looking for a spot, text GET and receive a list of these available spots. Users looking to to follow them through Twitter first follow us, @roadify, and GIVE/GET in the same manner via direct messaging so as to not to broadcast to the whole world.

It’s a fascinating concept. But it requires that lots of people opt in and become part of what sounds like a possible solution to the difficulties of parking.

Now Roadify is adding bus schedules to its bag of tricks. In the next few weeks they will begin offering BusesAroundMe (BAM) with the B67 route. Roadify understands that the bus schedule is never accurate – and they want to change that.

Buses Around Me will work in much the same way as  GIVE/GET except with real-time bus transit data. For example, using this service people will GIVE information as simple as, “getting on the bus at 7 st.” They already have the scheduled time schedules in our system and people farther down the line waiting in the cold who text GET will receive something like, “2 mins ago bus at 7 st. 10 mins behind schd.”

Roadify was created by locals to provide a solution to a difficult problem around the area.