Photo by Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie.

Calling all developers: Metro has now given you the chance to play around with its bus data. As of this morning, those who have registered for an account on WMATA’s developer site will have access to information regarding Metrobus performance — data for rail performance has been available for a few months — and such transparency has already paid off with some nifty gadgets, like this one, which maps the location of all Metro trains in real time.

So far, the initial conclusion from those utilizing the data: a lot of Metrobuses aren’t running on time. The Post’s Luke Rosiak reports some of his intitial findings as such:

Among other possibilities, the realtime bus positions, which indicate how many minutes ahead or behind of schedule a bus is running, offer a window into performance. At 10:30 this morning, there were 266 buses navigating the region, and a quarter were running 7 minutes or more behind. (Ten percent were at least 13 minutes late.) Ten percent were two minutes early, and 18 percent were right on the money, within a minute of schedule.

One 32 bus to Friendship Heights was 38 minutes late, and another on the N8 Glover Park line was 39 minute early. An S4 Federal Triangle bus was a half hour early, and an S80 to Metro Park was 35 minutes behind.

Data: always a party pooper.