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Transit’s public transportation app gets a big overhaul and $2.4M in funding
- thex10 10y agoThis is great news. Transit's experience is the best in the field.
- noobermin 10y agoIt's a godsend for people like me whose public transportation service doesn't have a dedicated app.
- dajohnson89 10y agoEven if your city did have a dedicated app, it's almost certainly awful.
- synparb 10y agoIt's much more entertaining and useful to read about the overhaul from Transit itself: https://medium.com/transit-app/transit-4-0-is-now-live-2329f60fb3bb https://medium.com/transit-app/transit-4-0-is-now-live-2329f...
- edwhitesell 10y agoIt's too bad more transportation/government organizations weren't investing in OneBusAway.org instead. It's Open Source and was* pretty well supported. [*] I can't speak to the current status, but my wife was the PM on the team that pulled the project from University of Washington in to Sound Transit.
- ben_jones 10y agoCorollary: how many developers of public transportation apps use public transportation, and how many of them use low-end public transportation where the environment and process may be totally different? I see from the screenshots many examples of the app giving transit instructions for what is perceived to be optimal usage, but if I were say in a bad area of Chicago would that be advice I should follow? Furthermore if children or minors were making use of this app would they be receiving the right information? I'm not trying to bash the app, it's cool, but it has me thinking..
- ant6n 10y agoAre buses inherently different in a 'bad area' of Chicago than in Montreal?
- koenigdavidmj 10y agoThen somebody in the media brands your feature the "avoid black people button". Not the kind of publicity I want, personally.
- gkop 10y agoHow does Transit compare with Moovit? Should I switch from Moovit to Transit? (Moovit is at $81MM in funding according to Crunchbase and works better than Google Maps in my experience in SF)
- kstrauser 10y agoMoovit looks pretty and I like the whole "leveling up" idea, but it was terribly inaccurate for the AC Transit routes I take most often. Transit and other apps would have live arrival times within a minute or two of each other, but Moovit would either lack information or be half a departure cycle off as often as not. I gave up trusting it and went back to Transit.
- Nullabillity 10y agoMoovit's accuracy seems to have dropped like a rock, at least in Stockholm, somewhere in the last half year or so.
- Apocryphon 10y agoAlways nice to see success from startups outside of the SF/NY hotspot.
- ChrisArchitect 10y agoswear by this app for a few years at least; great for regular home region, but have also used it on while travelling in other countries without hesitation A-B trip planning seems a departure from their humble/minimal roots, but obv. somewhere they have to go, so good on them
- eevilspock 10y agoI reported a bug in Transit 4.0 yesterday and got prompt response directly from the CTO, Guillaume Campagna, along with a promise of a fix. The live bus tracking was great, but the new GO feature makes it even better.