Transit • Subway & Bus Times 5.15.15
Free Version
Publisher Description
HERE’S WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
"Gives you the best route to where you want to go" - New York Times
“You won't realize how much time you can save planning until you use this app” - LA Times
“Killer app” - Wall Street Journal
"MBTA has a favorite transit app — and it's called Transit" - Boston Globe
“A one-stop-shop” - Washington Post
AND HERE’S THE WORD FROM PUBLIC TRANSIT RIDERS
“Your app was the deciding factor in selling my car.”
“Blows Google Maps out of the water.”
“The head of our local transit agency recommended this app over the one her agency created.”
6 GREAT THINGS ABOUT TRANSIT:
1) THE BEST REAL-TIME DATA
The app uses the best transit agency data sources like MTA Bus Time, MTA Train Time, NJ Transit MyBus, SF MUNI Next Bus, CTA Bus Tracker, WMATA Next Arrivals, SEPTA Real-Time and many more. We combine that data with our fancy ETA prediction engine so that you get the most accurate real-time info possible for all transit modes - including buses, subways, trains, streetcars, metros, ferries, ridehail and more. Prefer to travel on two wheels? With GPS, you can see live bikeshare and scooter locations right on the map.
2) TRAVEL OFFLINE
Bus schedules, stop locations, subway maps and even our trip planner are available offline.
3) POWERFUL TRIP PLANNING
See fast and easy trips combining buses, subways and trains – the app even suggests routes that combine multiple options in one trip like bus + bike or scooter + metro. You’ll find great trip plans that you never even considered! Don’t like to walk a lot or use a certain mode or transit agency? Personalize your travel in the settings.
4) GO: OUR STEP-BY-STEP NAVIGATOR*
Receive departure alarms to catch your bus or train, and get alerted when it’s time to get off or transfer. When using GO, you’ll also crowdsource more accurate info and real-time ETAs for other passengers– and rack up points and thank yous for being the most helpful rider on your line.
5) User Reports
See what other riders have to say! With millions of users contributing, you’ll get helpful info on crowding levels, on-time performance, the closest subway exits, and more.
6) Easy Payments
Pay your transit fare and buy bikeshare passes directly in the app in over 75 cities.
*continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life.
300+ CITIES INCLUDING:
Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Hartford, Honolulu, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Madison, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Providence, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington D.C.
1000+ PUBLIC TRANSIT AGENCIES INCLUDING:
AC Transit, Atlanta Streetcar (MARTA), Bee-Line, Big Blue Bus, Caltrain, Cap Metro, CATS, CDTA, CTA, CT Transit, DART, DC Metro (WMATA), DDOT, GCRTA, HART, Houston Metro, KCATA, King County Metro Transit, LA DOT, LA Metro,LBT, LIRR, Lynx, MCTS, MDOT MTA, Metra, Metrolink, MetroNorth, Miami Dade Transit, MTA BUS, NCTD, New Jersey Transit (NJT), NFTA, NICE, NYC MTA Subway, OCTA, PACE, PRT, Ride-On, RTD, SEPTA, SF BART, SF Muni, Sound Transit, SORTA (Metro), St. Louis Metro, TANK, TheBus, Tri-Met, UTA, Valley Metro, Via
SEE ALL SUPPORTED CITIES & COUNTRIES: TRANSITAPP.COM/REGION
**Questions or feedback? Browse our help pages: help.transitapp.com, email us: info@transitapp.com, or find us on X: @transitapp**
Mar 22, 2024
Version 5.15.15
Spring is peeping out of the curtains and keeping us on our toes. One day we’re sunbathing on the mountain. The next day we’re wringing melted snow out of our wool socks and defanging the icicles in our beards.
As the mercury meter hops around like a jack-in-the-box, we’re bringing you a weatherproofed wagon of minor improvements, including:
- Better bicycle trip plans. You’ll now see a wider variety of options with fewer overlapping legs/zigzagging portions. We’ll also favour trip legs with bike paths and lightly-trafficked roads even more than before
- Tweaks that make your GO live activities easier to peep at from the Dynamic Island
- Added bathtub plugs and caulking to leaky strings in the UI, everything is pixel perfect now
Anything else? Yes, but you’ll have to wait until the next update!
Rate us five stars to ask Helios and his solar horses for five more solar eclipses.
About Transit • Subway & Bus Times
Transit • Subway & Bus Times is a free app for iOS published in the Recreation list of apps, part of Home & Hobby.
The company that develops Transit • Subway & Bus Times is Transit App, Inc.. The latest version released by its developer is 5.15.15.
To install Transit • Subway & Bus Times on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2024-03-22 and was downloaded 13 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Transit • Subway & Bus Times as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Transit • Subway & Bus Times on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
- Once the Transit • Subway & Bus Times is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
- If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
- After Transit • Subway & Bus Times is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
Program Details
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Publisher | Transit App, Inc. |
Released Date | 2024-03-22 |
Languages | English |
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Category | Home & Hobby |
Subcategory | Recreation |
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Operating systems | ios |
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File size | 157.08 MB |
Total downloads | 13 |
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License model | Free |
Price | N/A |
Version History
version 5.15.15
posted on 2024-03-22
Mar 22, 2024
Version 5.15.15
Spring is peeping out of the curtains and keeping us on our toes. One day we’re sunbathing on the mountain. The next day we’re wringing melted snow out of our wool socks and defanging the icicles in our beards.
As the mercury meter hops around like a jack-in-the-box, we’re bringing you a weatherproofed wagon of minor improvements, including:
- Better bicycle trip plans. You’ll now see a wider variety of options with fewer overlapping legs/zigzagging portions. We’ll also favour trip legs with bike paths and lightly-trafficked roads even more than before
- Tweaks that make your GO live activities easier to peep at from the Dynamic Island
- Added bathtub plugs and caulking to leaky strings in the UI, everything is pixel perfect now
Anything else? Yes, but you’ll have to wait until the next update!
Rate us five stars to ask Helios and his solar horses for five more solar eclipses.
version 5.15.14
posted on 2024-03-01
Mar 1, 2024
Version 5.15.14
Whoever planned the annual American public transit conference to be in NEW ORLEANS and overlap with MARDI GRAS? We salute you… and fear you. We’re now in recovery mode after a week’s worth of parade-chasing, streetcar-riding, agency-collaborating, and haunted walks around the French Quarter.
Back home in Montreal, our loyal developers were foregoing the agency meetings, palm trees, and Bourbon street lemonades — and cooked up a gumbo of bug fixes for you all. Good thing we brought them back a pot of gumbo for real.
Rate us five stars to laissez les bons temps rouler… without letting the bugs rouler out of control.
version 5.15.12
posted on 2024-02-07
Feb 7, 2024
Version 5.15.12
The forecast in Florida called for “falling iguanas” this month, as the sunshine state experienced a cold snap so cold it stunned the lizards in the trees. While our cold-blooded friends defrosted on the sidewalk, we waxed our cross-country skis, glided to the office, and got busy counting the number of snowed-in and snow-cleared bus stops in Montreal (see transitapp.com/snow for more info).
To keep the windchill at bay, our designer Béa knitted up some beautiful new in-app icons that will warm your heart... and feet. You can inspect her nimble-fingered needlework by navigating to the Royale section in the app settings. (Anyone can see her new app icons, but only our loyal subscribers can add them to their homescreen!)
Other than that? New year, new bug fixes:
- The illegibility wars between dark fonts and dark backgrounds (and light fonts and light backgrounds) that have vexed users of Dark Mode and other colourful in-app themes has reached a détente, thanks to our favourite in-app function, HighContrast.
- Planning a trip? We’ve made it easier to buy fares - even for trips that span different transit agencies! You’ll now see a neat “buy ticket” button, below the relevant leg of your trip, when you look up trip directions in the app.
Nothing else to report... time to go ice fishing.
PS: App glitch? Dropped stitch? We’re @transitapp on Twitterville. Rate us five stars if your usual place is chillier than red hot chili peppers.
version 5.15.12
posted on 2024-02-07
Feb 7, 2024
Version 5.15.12
The forecast in Florida called for “falling iguanas” this month, as the sunshine state experienced a cold snap so cold it stunned the lizards in the trees. While our cold-blooded friends defrosted on the sidewalk, we waxed our cross-country skis, glided to the office, and got busy counting the number of snowed-in and snow-cleared bus stops in Montreal (see transitapp.com/snow for more info).
To keep the windchill at bay, our designer Béa knitted up some beautiful new in-app icons that will warm your heart… and feet. You can inspect her nimble-fingered needlework by navigating to the Royale section in the app settings. (Anyone can see her new app icons, but only our loyal subscribers can add them to their homescreen!)
Other than that? New year, new bug fixes:
- The illegibility wars between dark fonts and dark backgrounds (and light fonts and light backgrounds) that have vexed users of Dark Mode and other colourful in-app themes has reached a détente, thanks to our favourite in-app function, HighContrast.
- Planning a trip? We’ve made it easier to buy fares — even for trips that span different transit agencies! You’ll now see a neat “buy ticket” button, below the relevant leg of your trip, when you look up trip directions in the app.
Nothing else to report… time to go ice fishing.
PS: App glitch? Dropped stitch? We’re @transitapp on Twitterville. Rate us five stars if your usual place is chillier than red hot chili peppers.
version 5.15.11
posted on 2024-01-27
Jan 27, 2024
Version 5.15.11
The forecast in Florida called for “falling iguanas” this month, as the sunshine state experienced a cold snap so cold it stunned the lizards in the trees. While our cold-blooded friends defrosted on the sidewalk, we waxed our cross-country skis, glided to the office, and got busy counting the number of snowed-in and snow-cleared bus stops in Montreal (see transitapp.com/snow for more info).
To keep the windchill at bay, our designer Béa knitted up some beautiful new in-app icons that will warm your heart... and feet. You can inspect her nimble-fingered needlework by navigating to the Royale section in the app settings. (Anyone can see her new app icons, but only our loyal subscribers can add them to their homescreen!)
Other than that? New year, new bug fixes:
- The illegibility wars between dark fonts and dark backgrounds (and light fonts and light backgrounds) that have vexed users of Dark Mode and other colourful in-app themes has reached a détente, thanks to our favourite in-app function, HighContrast.
- Planning a trip? We’ve made it easier to buy fares - even for trips that span different transit agencies! You’ll now see a neat “buy ticket” button, below the relevant leg of your trip, when you look up trip directions in the app.
Nothing else to report... time to go ice fishing.
PS: App glitch? Dropped stitch? We’re @transitapp on Twitterville. Rate us five stars if your usual place is chillier than red hot chili peppers.
version 5.15.10
posted on 2023-12-20
Dec 20, 2023
Version 5.15.10
Ah. The ides of December. When the buses in Canada get decked out in the grooviest winter tires. When those wild winter bikers shed the skintight lycra for balaclavas, ski masks, enormous lobster mittens... proving once and for all what “hardcore” really means.
Back at Transit HQ, we’re managing the fleets despite the sleets, running over bugs with our studded-tire BIXI bikes. Who decided to call this “autumn”? Was it you, New Orleans?
- You can now dismiss our post-ride questionnaire where we ask you “how was your ride, out of five stars?” by swiping down
- Fixed issue with GO when we’d ask you “are you on the J or the F train?” when you were actually on a secret third train... we’re now better at asking which bus or train you’re on when there’s a lot of nearby overlapping transit lines (or the same line but with different branches)
- The developers hereby apologize to the designers for misnaming some of the 50 shades of grey in Transit’s colour bible (“you call that ‘elephant hide’? It’s obviously light pewter.”)
- Fixed issue where the little robot man who feeds real-time data into the app was skipping like a Green Day CD in your brother’s old Walkman
- Montreal snowbirds can now purchase 747 bus tickets from the airport to downtown, right in the app
- Other bug fixes as dry as these Decembers days are short
Don’t forget to rate us five stars. And if you find a bug? Send us an email (info@transit.app) or drop us a note on Google Plus... we hear it now has more users than Twitter?
PS: is that a new in-app icon I see? I wonder what it could all mean... manifesto.transitapp.com
version 5.15.9
posted on 2023-12-17
Dec 17, 2023
Version 5.15.9
Ah. The ides of December. When the buses in Canada get decked out in the grooviest winter tires. When those wild winter bikers shed the skintight lycra for balaclavas, ski masks, enormous lobster mittens... proving once and for all what “hardcore” really means.
Back at Transit HQ, we’re managing the fleets despite the sleets, running over bugs with our studded-tire BIXI bikes. Who decided to call this “autumn”? Was it you, New Orleans?
- You can now dismiss our post-ride questionnaire where we ask you “how was your ride, out of five stars?” by swiping down
- Fixed issue with GO when we’d ask you “are you on the J or the F train?” when you were actually on a secret third train... we’re now better at asking which bus or train you’re on when there’s a lot of nearby overlapping transit lines (or the same line but with different branches)
- The developers hereby apologize to the designers for misnaming some of the 50 shades of grey in Transit’s colour bible (“you call that ‘elephant hide’? It’s obviously light pewter.”)
- Fixed issue where the little robot man who feeds real-time data into the app was skipping like a Green Day CD in your brother’s old Walkman
- Montreal snowbirds can now purchase 747 bus tickets from the airport to downtown, right in the app
- Other bug fixes as dry as these Decembers days are short
Don’t forget to rate us five stars. And if you find a bug? Send us an email (info@transit.app) or drop us a note on Google Plus... we hear it now has more users than Twitter?
PS: is that a new in-app icon I see? I wonder what it could all mean... manifesto.transitapp.com
version 5.15.7
posted on 2023-11-24
Nov 24, 2023
Version 5.15.7
Ah. The ides of December. When the buses in Canada get decked out in the grooviest winter tires. When those wild winter bikers shed the skintight lycra for balaclavas, ski masks, enormous lobster mittens... proving once and for all what “hardcore” really means.
Back at Transit HQ, we’re managing the fleets despite the sleets, running over bugs with our studded-tire BIXI bikes. Who decided to call this “autumn”? Was it you, New Orleans?
- You can now dismiss our post-ride questionnaire where we ask you “how was your ride, out of five stars?” by swiping down
- Fixed issue with GO when we’d ask you “are you on the J or the F train?” when you were actually on a secret third train... we’re now better at asking which bus or train you’re on when there’s a lot of nearby overlapping transit lines (or the same line but with different branches)
- The developers hereby apologize to the designers for misnaming some of the 50 shades of grey in Transit’s colour bible (“you call that ‘elephant hide’? It’s obviously light pewter.”)
- Fixed issue where the little robot man who feeds real-time data into the app was skipping like a Green Day CD in your brother’s old Walkman
- Montreal snowbirds can now purchase 747 bus tickets from the airport to downtown, right in the app
- Other bug fixes as dry as these Decembers days are short
Don’t forget to rate us five stars. And if you find a bug? Send us an email (info@transit.app) or drop us a note on Google Plus... we hear it now has more users than Twitter?
PS: is that a new in-app icon I see? I wonder what it could all mean... manifesto.transitapp.com
version 5.15.6
posted on 2023-10-31
Oct 31, 2023
Version 5.15.6
Strap on your gold lamé shorts, holster your toast, and turn the safety off on your favourite umbrella: it’s Rocky Horror Picture Show season.
We’ve cooked up a few horrors of our own in this update: if you live in New York City, behold our new Subway Rat Detector which lets you report rat sightings on the subway and look up how ratty your local stop is. For the leaderboard of rattiest stations, visit transitapp.com/rats
Got fun transit-related questions should we ask riders in your city? Does Paris really put the “rat” in “RATP”? What lurketh beneath the London Underground, besides a battalion of ghosts?
Tell us on Twitter @transitapp!
Other relevant house-keepings and mouse-peepings:
- On an underground train? We can now detect when you're on the move (even when your GPS is spotty) which will smooth out some quirks in your GO experience
- We removed the “protected lane tag” for shared bus + bike lanes in the bicycle trip planner
- Is your Apple Watch cluttered with Transit logos? You can now shelve our complication in the launcher widget, for a cleaner watchface
- Couldn’t set a GO reminder before a trip? Here’s your reminder that we fixed the bug... and now you can
- Other black magic, potions, and spells, per usual
Rate us five stars with costume ideas so the release notes team can finally win Halloween at the office.
version 5.15.5
posted on 2023-10-27
Oct 27, 2023
Version 5.15.5
Strap on your gold lamé shorts, holster your toast, and turn the safety off on your favourite umbrella: it’s Rocky Horror Picture Show season.
We’ve cooked up a few horrors of our own in this update: if you live in New York City, behold our new Subway Rat Detector which lets you report rat sightings on the subway and look up how ratty your local stop is. For the leaderboard of rattiest stations, visit transitapp.com/rats
Got fun transit-related questions should we ask riders in your city? Does Paris really put the “rat” in “RATP”? What lurketh beneath the London Underground, besides a battalion of ghosts?
Tell us on Twitter @transitapp!
Other relevant house-keepings and mouse-peepings:
- On an underground train? We can now detect your GO location a bit more accurately (to give you better turn-by-turn directions, and rat-spotting precision)
- We removed the “protected lane tag” for shared bus + bike lanes in the bicycle trip planner
- Is your Apple Watch cluttered with Transit logos? You can now shelve our complication in the launcher widget, for a cleaner watchface
- Couldn’t set a GO reminder before a trip? Here’s your reminder that we fixed the bug... and now you can
- Other black magic, potions, and spells, per usual
Rate us five stars with costume ideas so the release notes team can finally win Halloween at the office.
version 5.15.3
posted on 2023-10-06
Oct 6, 2023
Version 5.15.3
- Our real-time detour detector is now up and running in Vermont, Vegas, Baltimore, and Torrance, CA, to identify wayward buses the moment they stray from their regular route, with help from our swift-footed friends at Swiftly.
- For any bus line on a planned detour, we’ll reroute your trip plans and update your ETAs accordingly
- You can also tap the detoured bus line to see its new path (and see which of its regularly-scheduled stops are getting skipped)
- As we continue to master the detour, we have somehow perfected the segue:
- Better bike directions are now live! Plan a trip, see which trip legs are protected by bike paths, and choose between competing trip plans to optimize for maximizing safety vs. minimizing elevation vs. setting land speed records in your pedal-powered turboprop
- Contrary to industry rumours, our show “The Real Bus Drivers of New Jersey” will not be getting picked up by Bravo
- Have you ever tapped on a transit line and seen vehicles for that line floating off and away from their expected route path? Sometimes, it’s a detour, but in most cases, it’s because that transit line has multiple configurations, be it branches (hi Boston!), loops (Chicago!), express vs. local dichotomies, or because the line runs along different streets depending on the direction it’s headed
- TL;DR: for transit lines that don’t always follow the same exact stops, we’ve filtered out the irrelevant vehicles that won’t stop at your stop, and simplified the route paths you see - no more mystery mobiles floating in the Transit map either.
Rate us five stars for fixing Chicago’s loop-de-loops from our tent stoop in Rivière-du-Loup.
version 5.15.1
posted on 2023-09-21
Sep 21, 2023
Version 5.15.1
It’s been eight weeks since Barbenheimer set the summer in motion. The pink-attired mobs have slimmed to a trickle. A few last Nolan fans are lined-up for the IMAX, dressed up like maleficent physicists. Indiana Jones? Mission Impossible? The summer blockbusters have all come and gone. And so, my friends, has summer.
Thought our job was just beach, and bug fixes? In this update we also rekenfigured our end of ride prompt, which...
1. asks you to rate your trip on a five-star scale, and
2. shows you how many riders you’ve helped, at the end of every GO trip, and
3. tells you how long you were GOing (in time + miles)
You’ll see that we’ve slapped a new coat of paint on that bad boy, and added some gratuitous gyroscope physics - test it out. Spin your phone in the air like a pepperoni pizza. What could go wrong.
Rate us 5 stars for 500 more days of summer.
version 5.15.0
posted on 2023-09-03
Sep 3, 2023
Version 5.15.0
It’s been eight weeks since Barbenheimer set the summer in motion. The pink-attired mobs have slimmed to a trickle. A few last Nolan fans are lined-up for the IMAX, dressed up like maleficent physicists. Indiana Jones? Mission Impossible? The summer blockbusters have all come and gone. And so, my friends, has summer.
Thought our job was just beach, and bug fixes? In this update we also rekenfigured our end of ride prompt, which...
1. asks you to rate your trip on a five-star scale, and
2. shows you how many riders you’ve helped, at the end of every GO trip, and
3. tells you how long you were GOing (in time + miles)
You’ll see that we’ve slapped a new coat of paint on that bad boy, and added some gratuitous gyroscope physics - test it out. Spin your phone in the air like a pepperoni pizza. What could go wrong.
Rate us 5 stars for 500 more days of summer.
version 5.14.12
posted on 2023-08-13
Aug 13, 2023
Version 5.14.12
Taylor Swift: transit icon? As the banjo-clad hordes of ravenous Swifties descend on Transit in record numbers - taking a bus or train to the country-pop concert, in lieu of the démodé pickup truck - we can almost forgive Tay-Tay for her private jet’s gaseous gifts to our atmosphere. But there’s no point in playing the Anti-Hero when you believe in the redemptive power of Karma...
That’s why in this edition of Transit we:
- Shake It Off (“it” being the deluge of real-time feeds that we accidentally loaded simultaneously, slowing the app to a crawl if you happened to be near a lot of transit lines)
- replace your Getaway Car (to the south shore of Montreal) with the new beautiful REM light rail, the biggest transit project in Quebec in 50+ years
- say Hey Stephen (because our editor is on vacation in Nova Scotia, unable to reign in deez Fearless puns)
Spot a bug? Speak now. Question...? We’re @transitapp on twitter.
Rate us five-stars if you know All Too Well how we roll.
version 5.14.11
posted on 2023-08-06
Aug 6, 2023
Version 5.14.11
Taylor Swift: transit icon? As the banjo-clad hordes of ravenous Swifties descend on Transit in record numbers - taking a bus or train to the country-pop concert, in lieu of the démodé pickup truck - we can almost forgive Tay-Tay for her private jet’s gaseous gifts to our atmosphere. But there’s no point in playing the Anti-Hero when you believe in the redemptive power of Karma...
That’s why in this edition of Transit we:
- Shake It Off (“it” being the deluge of real-time feeds that we accidentally loaded simultaneously, slowing the app to a crawl if you happened to be near a lot of transit lines)
- replace your Getaway Car (to the south shore of Montreal) with the new beautiful REM light rail, the biggest transit project in Quebec in 50+ years
- say Hey Stephen (because our editor is on vacation in Nova Scotia, unable to reign in deez Fearless puns)
Spot a bug? Speak now. Question...? We’re @transitapp on twitter.
Rate us five-stars if you know All Too Well how we roll.
version 5.14.10
posted on 2023-07-13
Jul 13, 2023
Version 5.14.10
Canada Day in Ottawa. The OC Transpo buses were bustling. Justin Trudeau was busy breaking into the old Rideau Street McDonald’s to relive the glory days of his youth. Sure, us Montrealers might have been busy moving apartments and picking up curb-side Structube freebies, but part of us wished to be across the border, in Ontario, peaking on maple syrup, listening to Jann Arden, basking in the national pride that comes with not having to care about American football.
And so we did what any self-respecting child of the St. Lawrence would do in our situation. We paddled up-river to Lebreton Flats - and we brought more to the party than mere bug fixes, friend! We’re thrilled to announce that OC Transpo, every Sens fan’s favourite transit agency, is now giving EVERYONE IN OTTAWA free Royale (yes, even the snake on the O-Train). From Kanata to Barrhaven to the majestic bogland they call Orléans - it’s the best thing to happen to the 613 since Alexei Kovalev stole Boustan’s shawarma recipe and gave it to Chris Neil.
In other news? Nothing!
In news besides nothing? Bug fixes!
PS: are you the sort of person who uses Transit to save your favourite locations, pinned lines, buy transit fares, and unlock bikeshares? Then you don’t need to be reminded: Transit Accounts are a lifesaver. Join our glorious superusers, and create yours today. (You’ll also be able to get our release notes by email, making it easy to forward them to your lawyer friends on Wellington Street, subject line: shawarma slander.)
PPS: rate us five stars to finally give Jann Arden a #1 song on the YTV Hit List
version 5.14.9
posted on 2023-07-07
Jul 7, 2023
Version 5.14.9
Canada Day in Ottawa. The OC Transpo buses were bustling. Justin Trudeau was busy breaking into the old Rideau Street McDonald’s to relive the glory days of his youth. Sure, us Montrealers might have been busy moving apartments and picking up curb-side Structube freebies, but part of us wished to be across the border, in Ontario, peaking on maple syrup, listening to Jann Arden, basking in the national pride that comes with not having to care about American football.
And so we did what any self-respecting child of the St. Lawrence would do in our situation. We paddled up-river to Lebreton Flats - and we brought more to the party than mere bug fixes, friend! We’re thrilled to announce that OC Transpo, every Sens fan’s favourite transit agency, is now giving EVERYONE IN OTTAWA free Royale (yes, even the snake on the O-Train). From Kanata to Barrhaven to the majestic bogland they call Orléans - it’s the best thing to happen to the 613 since Alexei Kovalev stole Boustan’s shawarma recipe and gave it to Chris Neil.
In other news? Nothing!
In news besides nothing? Bug fixes!
PS: are you the sort of person who uses Transit to save your favourite locations, pinned lines, buy transit fares, and unlock bikeshares? Then you don’t need to be reminded: Transit Accounts are a lifesaver. Join our glorious superusers, and create yours today. (You’ll also be able to get our release notes by email, making it easy to forward them to your lawyer friends on Wellington Street, subject line: shawarma slander.)
PPS: rate us five stars to finally give Jann Arden a #1 song on the YTV Hit List
version 5.14.7
posted on 2023-06-16
Jun 16, 2023
Version 5.14.7
Never got to enjoy the Tim Hortons smoking section during your childhood? Canada’s wildfires can help you make the most of it.
In this edition of Transit we:
- Fixed some bugs
- Closed the windows
- Did not enjoy the smog
Rate us 5 stars to make it rain (for our friends up north)
version 5.14.6
posted on 2023-05-15
May 15, 2023
Version 5.14.6
Real-time vehicle locations from your transit agency? That’s the gold standard.
What about real-time vehicle locations from a Transit rider using GO?
Holy Midas! That’s even golder than gold: when a GO rider shares their vehicle location, those locations are more accurate & update much more frequently.
Now, you can say THANK YOU! to riders who share realer real-time locations with you:
- Tap open any line, then tap the vehicle icon
- If the vehicle location is provided by your agency? The vehicle icon will look plain.
- But if the vehicle location is being provided by a GO rider? You’ll see their GO emoji avatar on the vehicle icon
- Want to show your gratitude? Tap “say thanks”!
- We’ll thank them on your behalf, then carry them off the field on our shoulders while the whole stadium screams “WE LOVE YOU!” like in the movies
Want to get props, instead of just doling ‘em out? Tap GO to start crowdsourcing your trip!
A few more extra-extras in this update:
- You’ll now see relevant stats about a transit vehicle when you tap the vehicle icon (such as its crowding level, accessibility status, and how many stops away it is.)
- We’ve redesigned the “exit GO” prompt to be less needy, more zen
- Apple Watchers: you can now pin/unpin transit lines, so they show up near the top of the home screen
- To pin/unpin a line? Tap any line, and toggle the pin button
That’s it from us. Rate us five stars to spin the propeller hat to liftoff velocity
version 5.14.5
posted on 2023-05-04
May 4, 2023
Version 5.14.5
- Did you plan a trip, from your current location to somewhere else?
- And then you had the audacity to actually... walk to the stop?
- When you planned a new trip, we’d pretend you were still back where you started. Ugh.
- Good news: your trip plans will no longer tell you to “walk ten minutes to the bus stop” when you are already at the bus stop, looking fabulous.
- Why? We now automatically update your trip results with your NEW current location - if you’ve moved locations since you first planned your trip
- Just refresh the trip planner to bring your “current location” up to speed!
What else?
- Looking for an electric bikeshare? We’ve made it more obvious when an e-bike is locked in the dock, charged like Pikachu, and ready to rip like greased lightning of the two-wheeled variety.
Other than that, we fixed some bugs under the glow of candlelight, laptops tethered to our cell phones, during the Great Montreal Ice Storm of April 2023.
Rate us five stars because we need the light... we’re running out of wax!!!
version 5.14.4
posted on 2023-04-24
Apr 24, 2023
Version 5.14.4
- Did you plan a trip, from your current location to somewhere else?
- And then you had the audacity to actually... walk to the stop?
- When you planned a new trip, we’d pretend you were still back where you started. Ugh.
- Good news: your trip plans will no longer tell you to “walk ten minutes to the bus stop” when you are already at the bus stop, looking fabulous.
- Why? We now automatically update your trip results with your NEW current location - if you’ve moved locations since you first planned your trip
- Just refresh the trip planner to bring your “current location” up to speed!
What else?
- Looking for an electric bikeshare? We’ve made it more obvious when an e-bike is locked in the dock, charged like Pikachu, and ready to rip like greased lightning of the two-wheeled variety.
Other than that, we fixed some bugs under the glow of candlelight, laptops tethered to our cell phones, during the Great Montreal Ice Storm of April 2023.
Rate us five stars because we need the light... we’re running out of wax!!!
version 5.14.3
posted on 2023-04-11
Apr 11, 2023
Version 5.14.3
After travelling from Montreal to sunny Los Angeles via intercity rail, Greyhound, and freshwater lake freighter, we were rudely rebuffed at the Oscar doors. Apparently, all of Transit’s nominations had been demoted to the “non-televised” part of the ceremony!
Lest we let our ballgown (and LA Metro fare) go to waste, we’ll shine the Dolby Theatre’s $500,000 spotlight on the definitely-not-obscure categories that Transit was nominated for:
For “best performance in a roving detour”: Transit took home the Oscar alongside its Montreal production partner, the STM. In February, the duo launched real-time detour detection. This feature automatically adds bus detours into the app, even if the data feed has not been updated by the transit agency. Want to bring detour detection to your city? Get the full details over at blog.transitapp.com
For “most dynamic visual effects”: Transit developer Félix won for his introduction of Dynamic Type into Transit. Now, small text on the home screen will appear magically bigger (such as upcoming departure times, and headsigns like “eastbound” or “westbound”, etc.) so you don’t have to squint like a bat without bifocals. Just update the system settings on your phone for Accessibility > > Display & Text Size.
For “most embarrassing bug fix”: we’ve removed the banner that said your phone had “Weak GPS” when your GPS was as muscular as Arnold in his Terminator era.
For “so sorry, we only caught this in post-production”: we now wait three minutes after a bus departure until asking you why you missed it (instead of asking you why you missed a bus that is still a few blocks away from your stop... oopsie!)
Well, that’s it! Big thanks to quick-walking TikTokker @haydenbegley for using Transit to catch her Metro Rail to the Oscars. We’ve planted five stars in her honour on the Release Notes Walk of Fame.
version 5.14.2
posted on 2023-04-03
Apr 3, 2023
Version 5.14.2
After travelling from Montreal to sunny Los Angeles via intercity rail, Greyhound, and freshwater lake freighter, we were rudely rebuffed at the Oscar doors. Apparently, all of Transit’s nominations had been demoted to the “non-televised” part of the ceremony!
Lest we let our ballgown (and LA Metro fare) go to waste, we’ll shine the Dolby Theatre’s $500,000 spotlight on the definitely-not-obscure categories that Transit was nominated for:
For “best performance in a roving detour”: Transit took home the Oscar alongside its Montreal production partner, the STM. In February, the duo launched real-time detour detection. This feature automatically adds bus detours into the app, even if the data feed has not been updated by the transit agency. Want to bring detour detection to your city? Get the full details over at blog.transitapp.com
For “most dynamic visual effects”: Transit developer Félix won for his introduction of Dynamic Type into Transit. Now, small text on the home screen will appear magically bigger (such as upcoming departure times, and headsigns like “eastbound” or “westbound”, etc.) so you don’t have to squint like a bat without bifocals. Just update the system settings on your phone for Accessibility > > Display & Text Size.
For “most embarrassing bug fix”: we’ve removed the banner that said your phone had “Weak GPS” when your GPS was as muscular as Arnold in his Terminator era.
For “so sorry, we only caught this in post-production”: we now wait three minutes after a bus departure until asking you why you missed it (instead of asking you why you missed a bus that is still a few blocks away from your stop... oopsie!)
Well, that’s it! Big thanks to quick-walking TikTokker @haydenbegley for using Transit to catch her Metro Rail to the Oscars. We’ve planted five stars in her honour on the Release Notes Walk of Fame.
version 5.14.1
posted on 2023-03-24
Mar 24, 2023
Version 5.14.1
After travelling from Montreal to sunny Los Angeles via intercity rail, Greyhound, and freshwater lake freighter, we were rudely rebuffed at the Oscar doors. Apparently, all of Transit’s nominations had been demoted to the “non-televised” part of the ceremony!
Lest we let our ballgown (and LA Metro fare) go to waste, we’ll shine the Dolby Theatre’s $500,000 spotlight on the definitely-not-obscure categories that Transit was nominated for:
For “best performance in a roving detour”: Transit took home the Oscar alongside its Montreal production partner, the STM. In February, the duo launched real-time detour detection. This feature automatically adds bus detours into the app, even if the data feed has not been updated by the transit agency. Want to bring detour detection to your city? Get the full details over at blog.transitapp.com
For “most dynamic visual effects”: Transit developer Félix won for his introduction of Dynamic Type into Transit. Now, small text on the home screen will appear magically bigger (such as upcoming departure times, and headsigns like “eastbound” or “westbound”, etc.) so you don’t have to squint like a bat without bifocals. Just update the system settings on your phone for Accessibility > > Display & Text Size.
For “most embarrassing bug fix”: we’ve removed the banner that said your phone had “Weak GPS” when your GPS was as muscular as Arnold in his Terminator era.
For “so sorry, we only caught this in post-production”: we now wait three minutes after a bus departure until asking you why you missed it (instead of asking you why you missed a bus that is still a few blocks away from your stop... oopsie!)
Well, that’s it! Big thanks to quick-walking TikTokker @haydenbegley for using Transit to catch her Metro Rail to the Oscars. We’ve planted five stars in her honour on the Release Notes Walk of Fame.
version 5.12.4
posted on 2022-08-07
Aug 7, 2022 Version 5.12.4
Happy 10th birthday to Transit!
We cut our cake open with an electric chainsaw, sabred champagne with a multitool, and swung at a bus-shaped piñata until it rained free fares for everyone in attendance. Was it the most raucous tenth birthday party that Montreal has ever seen? The jury is out - but it was certainly a celebration befitting someone two times our age! (2.1 in America.)
Now we’re entering the second decade of Transit the best way we know how...
- Fixed the bug where people pronounce “New Orleans” as “New Orleeeeens”
- You can now buy tickets for streetcar and buses in New Awwlinz y’all, right inside Transit
- (Who said it was a bad idea to visit Louisiana in August? Laissez les bons temps brûler.)
- We now sell transit tickets for Toledo, Ohio too
Also:
- Can’t tell the difference between “scheduled departure” vs. “real-time departure”? Or an “officially canceled trip” vs. a “most-likely canceled trip”?
- Hallelujah! We’ve added a little explainer - you can find it by tapping on any line.
- Bikesharers in Pittsburgh and Kona, Hawaii can now buy passes + unlock bikes within Transit
- Ben Franklin Transit riders in Washington have been given Royale privileges
- (Sorry Ben Franklin. You got crowned after all.)
Now make a wish... and rate us 5 stars to blow out half of our birthday candles.
PS: spot a bug? You can tweet us @transitapp.
version 5.12.3
posted on 2022-07-09
Jul 9, 2022 Version 5.12.3
It’s camping season. Time to head to the woods and enjoy life’s simple pleasures: the sunrise... the night sky... the mosquitos the size of miniature horses...
Before we hang our hammock and kick off our hiking boots, we’ve packed in some updates:
- Did the bus pass you by - or did it not come at all?
- We’ve added a new prompt in GO that helps our team (and our transit agency partners) diagnose any missed departures
- What else?
- We’re embracing the rustic life. Sayonara, moisturizer. Hello, industrial bug spray!
- Goodbye bug that gave you two bikeshare unlock codes, superimposed on each other like a CAPTCHA from Satan
- We’ve added support for mobile ticketing in Cleveland for GCRTA (for whom we are now the official app!)
- Transit is now the official app of Calgary too!
- Calgarians, Clevelanders, Saskatonians, and Central Contra Costa County-ians (lol): your agencies have gifted you a free Royale subscription! Yee-haw.
- In other Royale news...
- We’ve added a new “Lost your subscription?” section if you’ve got a new phone, misplaced your Royale subscription, etc.
Other than that, thanks to everyone who supports our team by subscribing to Royale! You’re what allows us to keep making Transit better, every day. Want to become royalty? transitapp.com/getroyale
PS: rate us 5 stars cuz we’re hoping for a starry night. (We forgot our flashlight.)
version 5.11.5
posted on 2022-05-03
May 3, 2022 Version 5.11.5
April showers. May flowers. April grapes. May rosé. April foot therapy. May backflips off your grandpa’s shed into the above ground pool. Here’s what we’ve been sowing this month:
- If you use Transit to get around VIA (San Antonio, TX), CATA (Lansing, MI), Anne Arundel County (MD), or STTR (Trois-Rivières, QC)?
- Dust off your cape. Polish that tiara. Your agency has gifted you free Transit Royale!
- We’ve set up a little dashboard to track what % of trips are “mostly masked” in your city: transitapp.com/masks
See you on the flip side, grandpops. Rate us five stars for belly flop awareness.
version 5.11.4
posted on 2022-04-20
Apr 20, 2022 Version 5.11.4
Some bus lines are better than others. You know it’s true. What are the best (or most beguiling) transit lines in your city? Funny you asked...
In this update, we’ll start asking you to rate your ride whenever you use GO - did your vehicle show up on time? was it wheelchair-accessible? were people masked up? was it super crowded?
Soon, we’ll start pooling your answers and show you the “grade” for transit lines across your city.
Not only will you have a better idea of what to expect - but your local transit agency will know which lines need the most attention.
Anything else? Our yankee doodle American neighboUrs have been making a raQUet for years - clamoUring for an end to the idiosyncratic Canadian spelling style used at Transit. Consider this the formal abridgEment to our highly-flavoUred dialogUE: we’ve turned on “American spelling” for Americans, to anAEthetize their rancoUr.
Rate us 5 stars if you think American disdain for imperial spelling traditions should extend to imperial measurement units. (Ask for an inch? We’ll give a kilometre.)
PS... Montrealers can savoUr the savings: use Transit to save $9 off your annual BIXI pass. Discount is good til April 15th :)
PPS... What else? Shocking everybody: bug fixes.
version 5.11.3
posted on 2022-04-10
Apr 10, 2022 Version 5.11.3
Some bus lines are better than others. You know it’s true. What are the best (or most beguiling) transit lines in your city? Funny you asked...
In this update, we’ll start asking you to rate your ride whenever you use GO - did your vehicle show up on time? was it wheelchair-accessible? were people masked up? was it super crowded?
Soon, we’ll start pooling your answers and show you the “grade” for transit lines across your city.
Not only will you have a better idea of what to expect - but your local transit agency will know which lines need the most attention.
Anything else? Our yankee doodle American neighboUrs have been making a raQUet for years - clamoUring for an end to the idiosyncratic Canadian spelling style used at Transit. Consider this the formal abridgEment to our highly-flavoUred dialogUE: we’ve turned on “American spelling” for Americans, to anAEthetize their rancoUr.
Rate us 5 stars if you think American disdain for imperial spelling traditions should extend to imperial measurement units. (Ask for an inch? We’ll give a kilometre.)
PS... Montrealers can savoUr the savings: use Transit to save $9 off your annual BIXI pass. Discount is good til April 15th :)
PPS... What else? Shocking everybody: bug fixes.
version 5.11.2
posted on 2022-03-18
Mar 18, 2022 Version 5.11.2
Spring has sprung. The outdoor rinks are nothing but mud puddles. The ski slopes have been reclaimed by mountain bikers. Snow pants are out. Sundresses are in. Is that the hum of mosquitos out in the distance? Not if we have anything to say about it!!!
What’s new in this release:
- Goodbye Mr. Freeze-themed splash screen
- Hello “Tunnel Rave Neon” app icon for you lovely Royale supporters
- Transit Royale has been given to everyone in beautiful Belleville, ON and eastern Contra Costa County, CA (just over the mountains from Oakland) - thanks Belleville + Tri Delta Transit!
- Free Royale in Auxerre, France too? Why not: merci, Réseau Leo! On t’aime.
- We’re working with transit agencies to bring free Royale to every city. To speed up the process, ask your transit agency, and remember to tag us on Twitter @transitapp!
- We’ve added BCycle in Madison, WI. You can use Transit to find and unlock bikes, buy bike passes, and pedal from lake to lake to lake to lake to lake.
Bugs we’ve fixed in this release, bzzzzzz:
- The slow-loading ticket bar is now the Speedy Gonzalez ticket bar
- Disappearing buses in GO have had their invisibility privileges revoked
- Designers hinted that our Dark Mode “route pinning” pins made you squint
- So we minted a new pin tint that doesn’t set your eyes aglint
All that and plenty more under-the-hood. Rate us five stars to get more spring in your step.
version 5.10.12
posted on 2022-02-14
Feb 14, 2022 Version 5.10.12
Hello from the land of windchill warnings, freezer-burnt toes, snowed-in porches, moustaches crusted with snow. You thought Toronto was “True North”? Come take the Polar Express to Nunavik - the tippy-toppiest part of Northern Quebec - where no bugs survive winter (ergo: a prime destination for Transit developers to sit back, code, and chillllax.)
With such a light dusting of bug fixins’ to fix, we’ve had time to work on all sorts of new features:
- In select cities, you can now see the combined cost of a multimodal “transit + ridehail” trip in the trip planner.
- If your transit agency confirms a scheduled trip has been cancelled, we’ll now show a real-time symbol ))) next to the c-r-o-s-s-e-d o-u-t departure
- Microtransit lovers: C-TRAN’s shuttle service is now available in Vancouver. (Not the one with Sedin Twins: the one in Washington State, right across the Columbia River from Portland. [No, not the Lobster Portland, the other one...])
- We’ve added transit ticket purchases in all the following cities: Flagstaff, AZ; Avalon, CA; Banning, CA; Oxnard, CA; Palm Springs, CA; Tallahassee, FL; Oklahoma City, OK; Astoria, OR; and Hood River County, OR
We’re also happy to unveil the latest batch of Royale cities - their transit agencies have secured Transit Royale subscriptions for every rider!
- Albuquerque (thanks ABQ Ride!)
- Nassau County, NY (thanks NICE!)
- Solano County, CA (thanks SolTrans!)
- Loudoun County, VA (thanks LC Transit!)
- Clark County, WA (thanks C-TRAN!)
If your agency hasn’t yet unlocked your Royale subscription, you can always remind them with a nice friendly tweet. Tag @transitapp, we love to see it.
PS: rate us 5 shooting stars to make the Northern Lights pop for Stephen, Transit’s newest and northernmost Nunavik fanboy
version 5.10.11
posted on 2022-02-05
Feb 5, 2022 Version 5.10.11
Hello from the land of windchill warnings, freezer-burnt toes, snowed-in porches, moustaches crusted with snow. You thought Toronto was “True North”? Come take the Polar Express to Nunavik - the tippy-toppiest part of Northern Quebec - where no bugs survive winter (ergo: a prime destination for Transit developers to sit back, code, and chillllax.)
With such a light dusting of bug fixins’ to fix, we’ve had time to work on all sorts of new features:
- In select cities, you can now see the combined cost of a multimodal “transit + ridehail” trip in the trip planner.
- If your transit agency confirms a scheduled trip has been cancelled, we’ll now show a real-time symbol ))) next to the c-r-o-s-s-e-d o-u-t departure
- Microtransit lovers: C-TRAN’s shuttle service is now available in Vancouver. (Not the one with Sedin Twins: the one in Washington State, right across the Columbia River from Portland. [No, not the Lobster Portland, the other one...])
- We’ve added transit ticket purchases in all the following cities: Flagstaff, AZ; Avalon, CA; Banning, CA; Oxnard, CA; Palm Springs, CA; Tallahassee, FL; Oklahoma City, OK; Astoria, OR; and Hood River County, OR
We’re also happy to unveil the latest batch of Royale cities - their transit agencies have secured Transit Royale subscriptions for every rider!
- Albuquerque (thanks ABQ Ride!)
- Nassau County, NY (thanks NICE!)
- Solano County, CA (thanks SolTrans!)
- Loudoun County, VA (thanks LC Transit!)
- Clark County, WA (thanks C-TRAN!)
If your agency hasn’t yet unlocked your Royale subscription, you can always remind them with a nice friendly tweet. Tag @transitapp, we love to see it.
PS: rate us 5 shooting stars to make the Northern Lights pop for Stephen, Transit’s newest and northernmost Nunavik fanboy
version 5.10.10
posted on 2022-01-25
Jan 25, 2022 Version 5.10.10
Stars, you’re dust. Pins, we’ve got our hopes on you.
Little design tweak coming your way today: we’re replacing the “star” icon, which used to mark your favorite transit lines, with a more suitable “pin” icon.
Tap any transit line, “pin” it, and it will now get top billing at the top of the app - whenever you’re within walking distance! No more star-blind scrolling up and down, searching for your daily bus, sitting on pins and needles...
We’re also introducing AUTO-PINNING: any transit line that goes to a saved location like “home” or “work” or “batcave” will appear up top - even when you’re in an unfamiliar place. (Reminder: you can save locations by entering an address and tapping “...”)
All in all, no startling changes. Should be pretty easy to pin down - just play around & you’ll figure it out, Ringo.
What else? From Kalamazoo, Michigan to Santa Monica, California - and dozens of cities in between - you can now pay for the bus with apples. Wait sorry not apples. You can now pay for the bus with... Apple Pay! No credit card fetching required. More cities to come.
Rate us f*ve st*rs and we’ll stick a pin in our puns.
Tweet us @transitapp if you’ve been star-crossed by a bug.
version 5.10.8
posted on 2021-12-18
Dec 18, 2021 Version 5.10.8
You played a great game of twenty-one. Now after ~365 hands, it’s all over. Here’s what the blackjacks at Transit have dealt you in our last update of 2021:
- Bug fixes. Surprise!
- Last year’s resolutions? Who needs them. This update forgets all the resolutions you forgot to remember. Here’s to a clean slate in 2022!
- Your midnight flute of sparkle juice will now sing in a perfectly clear tone when *~cLiNkEd~*
- The sparklers are now more sparkly
- The noisemakers have been put on mute (“Thank you” - your dog)
- The writers room has cancelled the third part of the trilogy (“2020: the year that wasn’t”, “2021: the 2020 sequel you didn’t ask for”) so that next year feels like an actual year instead of a bad Marvel fever dream
- More under-the-hood stuff that will make your New Years Eve transit trip home imperceptibly fabulous
Stay safe, enjoy your masquerades - we both know you’ve been practicing A LOT - and may any pre-party rapid tests you take be of minimal nose irritation.
Love ya big. What do you want to see in Transit in 2022? Let us know on Twitter @transitapp
Rate us five stars and we’ll eat the pickled herring
version 5.10.7
posted on 2021-11-30
Nov 30, 2021 Version 5.10.7
- Fixed the bug that accidentally renamed “November” to “Pre-December”
- Where’s the reverence for late autumn? Get back in your lane, M*r*a* C*r*y!
- Our lone concession to the sixty-days-of-holiday-spirit crew?
- A new bedazzled holiday Transit app icon - now available to all those who’ve upgraded to Royale (thanks for your support!!!)
- For everyone else, enjoy Transit in our original “non-grinch green” colour scheme ;)
- What else? Transit is now the official cash-free way to pay(TM) for COTA bus fare in Columbus
- This includes “fare capping” off the get go: it means you’ll never spend above the value of a day pass/monthly pass, over the span of a day/month.
- Our beloved Montrealers will also find STM fare information in the trip planner now (aka “ohhh right, it’s actually $10 to ride the 747...”)
- Other bug fixes, including: undoubling the doubled button that fritzed the map when tapping on bikeshare, fixes to make your trip plans ever-more perfect, swatting away the roommate who tried to sneak a midnight bite from your advent calendar
Rate us 5 stars to prevent November erasure
version 5.10.6
posted on 2021-11-10
Nov 10, 2021 Version 5.10.6
Complimentary upgrades to Royale? Ohhh yeah.
Today, in our first four Royale agency partner cities, Royale gets unlocked for EVERYONE, for free. Welcome to the kingdom: St. Louis (Metro Transit), Rochester (RTS), Duluth (DTA), and Dayton (RTA). We’re in talks with transit agencies all over the globe who want to gift Transit Royale to all their riders - more agency partners will be announced soon.
Giant thanks are in order to everyone at Metro, RTS, DTA & RTA for being the first.
If you live in one of these lucky cities, you’ll get all of Royale’s bells and whistles for free (emoji selector! leaderboards! ride with friends!) including the ability to change your Transit app icon to your agency logo(TM) and more.
With the support of our Royale agency partners - and all you beautiful people who have subscribed to Royale in non-partner cities - we’re able to keep Transit going. Thanks for keeping us sheltered, well fed, overcaffeinated: we’re working hard to make your daily commute ever-more perfect.
Other than that, just a lot of under-the-hood stuff, including these bug fixes:
- We vanquished the invisible button that made VoiceOver chant “button, button, button, button...” like a haunted Lady Macbeth
- We’ve removed the glitchy animation when you opened the app (it lasted 0.05 seconds, how you spotted this one, we’ll never know)
- If you couldn’t find the “vehicle icon” when tracking your bus you’ll be glad to know your icons have returned to the corporeal realm
That’s it. Rate us five stars and tweet us @transitapp with your favourite witch’s spell. Thanks again for supporting Royale (if you’re able). And if you’re eager to bring Royale to everyone in your city? Tweet your agency and tag us!
version 5.10.4
posted on 2021-10-19
Oct 19, 2021 Version 5.10.4
- In an effort to make our app more readable, we’ve updated our greys
- Meet our beautiful grey children: “space grey” (#494B52), “rainy grey” (#5E6A82), and “silver grey” (#B0B9C2)
- Only 47 more shades of grey to go before the big surprise
- That: and an easier way for y’all to buy bus tickets in border towns...
- We’ve divvied up the Leafs and Sabres fandoms: no more prompts for bus tickets in St. Catharines, ON when you’re in Buffalo, NY (and vice versa)
- Same goes for Richmond, CA and other Bay Area bus sailors: we’ve got a better knack for whether you’re buying fares for AC Transit vs. Vine Transit vs. Soltrans
Annnnd... that’s pretty much it! (Plus some bug fixes, cuz we love ya.)
Rate us five stars to unleash the gray-hounds.
version 5.10.3
posted on 2021-10-01
Oct 1, 2021 Version 5.10.3
Summer is in retreat. Maples are mellowing; lawns are yellowing. And those aggressive Canadian geese? They’re ‘bout ready to cash in their frequent-flier miles for the warmer pastures of Myrtle Beach, Miami, and Monterey. Clocking speeds upwards of 40 km/h - and covering 1000+ km in a day!! - we’ll pardon their obnoxious honking, because they’ve seemingly gobbled up all the extant Transit bugs for fuel!
LATE SUMMER “THANK GOOSE” BUG FIXES:
- If your transit agency cancelled a departure - womp womp - we used to just remove it from your upcoming list of departures.
- While it used to happen very rarely (e.g. a driver was late to their shift, or got reassigned to a more urgent route) cancellations have become more frequent during the pandemic.
- In all cases, there was no explanation for why a trip disappeared!
- So we’ve made it crystal clear that a trip’s been cancelled: crossing out the departure with an unambiguous s-t-r-i-k-e-t-h-r-o-u-g-h. Bad news, yeah, but at least now you know.
- Now live in: Baltimore, Boston, Montreal, San Jose, St. Louis, more.
Et quoi d’autre?
- When you searched directions for an “all-day” calendar event, we used to suggest trips that began at midnight (0:00)
- Now, when you tap an all-day calendar event, we assume you want to leave at an eminently more realistic time (right now!)
- Miscellaneous map layers (like voting stations) were temporarily mixed with other mobility layers (bikeshare stations, scooters, etc.)
- No more living dangerously... they’re now separate in the settings
- Planning a trip in the past? We’ve reinstated 100% opacity for Transit’s trip planner time travellers
Rate us five stars to go H-O-N-K. Find bug? Blame goose: tweet us @transitapp and we’ll fix it for ye, pronto.
version 5.10.1
posted on 2021-09-05
Sep 5, 2021 Version 5.10.1
Hey: today we’re launching something major, called Transit Royale. It’s a big change - we’re slowly rolling it out to more and more cities. It means some parts of Transit will soon require a paid subscription. Here’s why we’re doing it.
Over the past decade we’ve grown from two people hacking on Transit, to a team of 60 designers, developers, data scientists, and transit wonks. Together, we make sure your app is super reliable, super fast, and super fun to use.
We spend all day talking with transit agencies to hunt down better data sources. Fixing broken transit data. Tweaking algorithms that predict when your buses and trains will show up. Designing features to make Transit ever-so-imperceptibly better.
This all takes time, money, resources.
So how do we keep Transit going for the long haul? Here’s what we refuse to do: blast you with distracting ads, mine your personal data, sell it to the highest bidder. Making you our product, rather than our customer. We think that’s wrong.
Over the last few months we’ve been testing a different approach: having Transit supported directly by riders. With Royale, subscribers get extras like special app themes and icons, plus a custom avatar and nickname - but we’ll be honest: we’re also now asking you to pay for certain longstanding Transit features.
Our choices won’t make everyone happy, since these two features:
- looking up departure times far into the future
- browsing lines farther away
...will now require a subscription. But it lets us continue work on Transit indefinitely. Without sacrificing app quality, losing control over our product, or compromising our riders’ trust.
Moreover, an annual subscription comes to $2 a month. While that price is affordable to most of our users, we know it’s still out of reach for many who are overworked, underpaid, sweating every penny. That’s why we’re offering free subscriptions if you truly can’t afford one. You can request a free subscription when you see Royale in the app.
Most importantly: we’ve kept core Transit features free. You will always know when your next ride is coming, no matter what. You’ll get the fastest trip plans, transit schedules and directions that work offline, alerts when service is down, and the most accurate predictions.
We’re excited that now, with your support, we can keep improving Transit without compromise. We’re also working with partner agencies in dozens of cities who want to bring Royale free to all their riders. First up: Rochester’s RTS, Dayton’s RTA, Denver’s RTD, St. Louis’s Metro Transit, and Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus. More on the way.
We hope you understand, and that you’ll support our team.
Now it’s time to get back to work!
PS: you can learn more at transitapp.com/royale
PPS: don’t yet see Royale in the app? It might take a while - we’re slowly bringing it to more and more cities. If you live in a city without Royale (but still want to subscribe and support Transit) you can go to transitapp.com/getroyale on your phone.
version 5.10.0
posted on 2021-08-19
Aug 19, 2021 Version 5.10.0
Hey: today we’re launching something major, called Transit Royale. It’s a big change - we’re slowly rolling it out to more and more cities. It means some parts of Transit will soon require a paid subscription. Here’s why we’re doing it.
Over the past decade we’ve grown from two people hacking on Transit, to a team of 60 designers, developers, data scientists, and transit wonks. Together, we make sure your app is super reliable, super fast, and super fun to use.
We spend all day talking with transit agencies to hunt down better data sources. Fixing broken transit data. Tweaking algorithms that predict when your buses and trains will show up. Designing features to make Transit ever-so-imperceptibly better.
This all takes time, money, resources.
So how do we keep Transit going for the long haul? Here’s what we refuse to do: blast you with distracting ads, mine your personal data, sell it to the highest bidder. Making you our product, rather than our customer. We think that’s wrong.
Over the last few months we’ve been testing a different approach: having Transit supported directly by riders. With Royale, subscribers get extras like special app themes and icons, plus a custom avatar and nickname - but we’ll be honest: we’re also now asking you to pay for certain longstanding Transit features.
Our choices won’t make everyone happy, since these two features:
- looking up departure times far into the future
- browsing lines farther away
...will now require a subscription. But it lets us continue work on Transit indefinitely. Without sacrificing app quality, losing control over our product, or compromising our riders’ trust.
Moreover, an annual subscription comes to $2 a month. While that price is affordable to most of our users, we know it’s still out of reach for many who are overworked, underpaid, sweating every penny. That’s why we’re offering free subscriptions if you truly can’t afford one. You can request a free subscription when you see Royale in the app.
Most importantly: we’ve kept core Transit features free. You will always know when your next ride is coming, no matter what. You’ll get the fastest trip plans, transit schedules and directions that work offline, alerts when service is down, and the most accurate predictions.
We’re excited that now, with your support, we can keep improving Transit without compromise. We’re also working with partner agencies in dozens of cities who want to bring Royale free to all their riders. First up: Rochester’s RTS, Dayton’s RTA, Denver’s RTD, St. Louis’s Metro Transit, and Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus. More on the way.
We hope you understand, and that you’ll support our team.
Now it’s time to get back to work!
PS: you can learn more at transitapp.com/royale
PPS: don’t yet see Royale in the app? It might take a while - we’re slowly bringing it to more and more cities. If you live in a city without Royale (but still want to subscribe and support Transit) you can go to transitapp.com/getroyale on your phone.
version 5.9.20
posted on 2021-08-12
Aug 12, 2021 Version 5.9.20
Your bus is 10 minutes away. Wait no it’s 4 minutes away. Just kidding. It’s already at the next stop.
The real-time predictions we get from official transit agency sources are usually okay. But sometimes they’re hilariously wrong.
We like hilarity. Missing the bus? Not so hilarious.
How could we make your predictions better - when even official data sources are off by several minutes?
~~ introducing something mega fabulous: ~~
~~~ better predictions for all your trips ~~~
Starting today, when an agency says their bus is “5 minutes away,” we say “ok 5 minutes.... BUT ARE YOU REALLY?”
Giving you more certainty at the stop, we’ve started to automatically improve departure time predictions for NYC, New Jersey, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Denver, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Halifax, Edmonton, Victoria BC, and more.
How much added certainty do we bring? Tap any line. When you see a purple crystal ball, we’ll tell you by what % we’re improving your predictions.
We’re improving real-time departure times with a combination of:
1. constantly monitoring street conditions, to detect any delays affecting the transit network
2. feeding several gigabytes of historical data into a hangry computer (then asking it to divine real-time departure countdowns)
Our app asks: “have the last few buses on nearby streets been running fast or slow?” If weather, traffic, or other factors are affecting the arrival times of nearby buses, we’ll adjust your departure times accordingly.
To make sure we’re doing a good job, we check after every transit trip: whose prediction was more accurate, Transit’s - or all the other apps? While our predictions aren’t 100% perfect... almost every time, they’re better.
So enjoy your new, improved predictions! And don’t forget to tap GO when you ride to make real-time tracking that much more accurate.
Want to thank Ayser, Juan, Laura, and Romain? They’d love to hear from you @transitapp on Twitter. Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars for helping you miss fewer buses.
PS: you can now buy tickets for VIA Metropolitan Transit (San Antonio, TX) and LANTA (Allentown, PA) - all within Transit.
version 5.9.19
posted on 2021-07-24
Jul 24, 2021 Version 5.9.19
How other apps announce a generic summer bug fix update:
“This release brings bug fixes that improve our product!” - Google Maps
“As always, performance improvements to make your viewing experience even better” - TikTok
“We continue to refine the app” - Airbnb
“Oh boy. Thought this was gonna be a generic bug fix release, did ya? Well, it is. But it’s also so much more.” - you know who
Welcome to Transit’s Annual Summer Bug-O-Rama, where our developers get to swoop down through the Adirondacks - swinging from vines of spider silk - to inoculate your app against the newest, rarest variants of ballyhooin’ Transit bugs.
Also new:
- In Pittsburgh: hello Mobility Hubs! Connect to Spin scooters, bikeshare, public transit and more - and find physical mobility hubs to connect ‘em all, right on the map.
- In Cincinnati: no more credit card required to pay for tickets within Transit! You can now load up your Transit account using cash at a Metro or TANK sales office.
- In Manhattan, KS: mobile tickets for aTa Bus have arrived, bless your hearts
Rate us 5 stars for a few more weeks of bluebird days, breezy beach paperbacks, coolers filled with crushed ice and Arnold Palmers, and bombastic summer bug fixes.
version 5.9.18
posted on 2021-07-03
Jul 3, 2021 Version 5.9.18
Bug spray? Check. Bear spray? Check. Ocean spray: cranberry juice? Chugachuga-check. It’s time to whomp those tent pegs and make yourself one with the wilderness. Summer is here, you know what that means: bonfires, fireworks, bug fix fires snuffed out just in time for us to go bikepacking “up north.” (Technically, when you live in Canada, everywhere is “up north.”)
Don’t forget to get your vaccines 1+2 and rate us a glorious 5 étoiles. We’ll be looking for them among the sparkle of Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Cepheus, Corona Borealis....
Tag us @transitapp if you require the bug spray. Tss tss!
version 5.9.17
posted on 2021-06-12
Jun 12, 2021 Version 5.9.17
Air conditioning unit? $300.
Industrial fan? $100.
The breeze from the subway going past you like woooooooooooosh? Utterly priceless.
There are some things money can’t buy. And air conditioners are ridiculously expensive this time of year.
So keep your loonies and toonies firm in your fanny packs - enjoy the cool refreshing feeling that nature intended: a big train or bus approaching, really really fast!
Also giving you beautifully frosty frisson-feelings this June? We’ve updated the trip planner with new ~animations~ to let you know when we’re trying to find you a better trip (even if it takes us an extra second to calculate).
PS.... all that, and your bimonthly dose of complimentary bug fixes. Find a bug? Tweet @transitapp
PPS... hello microtransit shuttles in Milton, Ontario and St. Louis, Missouri!
PPPS... don’t forget to tip your waitstaff. be a hero and rate us five stars!
USPS... United States Postal Service
version 5.9.15
posted on 2021-05-24
May 24, 2021 Version 5.9.15
Summer 2020: a throwaway summer. a bummer summer. a haven’t seen your family (and your long distance crush) in too-many-months summer. a mopey dark lightless tunnel summer. a categorically WTF summer! a “nobody noticed when we fixed all the bugs in Transit” summer.
Summer 2021: sweaty hedonistic DANCE PARTY summer. a kiss every dog you see on the FACE summer. bike to the beach with your friends (and high five a breakdancing grandma) summer. oh-my-god sweet taste of liberty summer. wind in your hair rolling down a hill on a longboard summer. a “wow did they really finally fix ALL the bugs in Transit?!?” summer.
Here it comes. Make up for lost time, it’s two summers in one. Double the bug fixes. Double the fun. Plus transit tickets in Milton (Ontario) and Duluth (Minnesota). Ooh-là-là. Rate us five stars and tweet us @transitapp with a picture of your dog. Woof.
version 5.9.14
posted on 2021-05-01
May 1, 2021 Version 5.9.14
Bye, cash! Cya, precious metals! Sayanora, pocket lint! Auf wiedersehen, penny fungus! We’re bringing cash-free MoBiLe PaYmEnT$ to more and more systems today, including...
Public transit purchases, within Transit:
- The COMET (Columbia, SC)
- 380 Express (Iowa City, IA)
- Simi Valley Transit (Simi Valley, CA)
- Clallam Transit (Port Angeles, WA)
- Kern Transit (Kern County, CA)
- Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer train (now you’re paying attention)
- Kingsport Area Transit Service (Kingsport, TN)
- NECALG (Sterling, CO)
- York Region Transit (Ontario, Canada)
- Redwood Coast Transit Authority (Del Norte County, CA)
- Transpo (South Bend, IN - you’re welcome, Buttigieg.)
Bikeshare:
- You can now purchase passes and unlock bikes for RTC Bike Share (Las Vegas, NV) right inside Transit - because we both know that *real* sharks keep their stack intact with a leg-loosening post-game peloton home. Save the tacky limos for the poker whales at Caesar’s ;)
Microtransit:
- Midway between a bus and a taxi, you can hail/pay for a shuttle within Transit that picks you up close to your place, and drops you off at the bus or train stop
- Today our newest agency microtransit services go live: for UTA in Salt Lake City, UT and ETS in Edmonton, Alberta!
Welp that’s it. Whoever said “cash is king” probably also thought Julius Caesar was going to have a happy ending. Let us know if you want mobile payments in your city on Twitter @transitapp (and tag your agency!) That’s it from us. Rate us five stars if cash used to rule everything around you. Dolla dolla bills RIP.
PS: We’re hiring! Know someone? We’re looking to add a transit data specialist, a data scientist, an iOS developer, a web developer, and a head of finance (Mr./Mrs. Moneybags) to our team. Apply at transitapp.com/jobs
version 5.9.13
posted on 2021-04-22
Apr 22, 2021 Version 5.9.13
- Woo, priority rail!!!
- Subways/metros/trains/etc. are now prioritized on the home screen
- (We realize you’ll usually walk farther to catch a train, than a bus. So we now show you faraway trains, before faraway buses)
- Railfans: you’re welcome!
- Busfans: time to start plotting your revenge.
- Fare capping! We’re capping the price, so you don’t pay twice, for all the following systems: RTS Rochester (New York); Dayton RTA (Ohio); Central Maryland RTA (Maryland)
- When you buy tickets in Transit, you’ll now only get charged as much as a daily pass (no matter how many single trip tickets you buy in a day) or as much as a monthly pass (no matter how many daily passes you buy in a month).
- Relatedly: you can now see any tickets you’ve purchased in Transit with our new ~account history~ view
- Peep all your past Transit purchases in Rochester, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Denver, Dayton, St. Louis, Montreal, and more
- Lastly, bug fixes! We’ve enacted a stay-at-home order for all bugs.
- “Stay at home, bugs!” - CEO Sam
- (While the bugs didn’t listen to our first five thousand stay-at-home orders... our leadership is absolutely positively CERTAIN that the same plan that didn’t work before, will work perfectly, this time.)
That’s it from us. Is that all from you, hmmm? Seen a bug? Just wanna say howdy? We’re @transitapp on twitter.
Rate us Pfize stars if you want freedom to come faster
version 5.9.12
posted on 2021-04-10
Apr 10, 2021 Version 5.9.12
- Woo, priority rail!!!
- Subways/metros/trains/etc. are now prioritized on the home screen
- (We realize you’ll usually walk farther to catch a train, than a bus. So we now show you faraway trains, before faraway buses)
- Railfans: you’re welcome!
- Busfans: time to start plotting your revenge.
- Fare capping! We’re capping the price, so you don’t pay twice, for all the following systems: RTS Rochester (New York); Dayton RTA (Ohio); Central Maryland RTA (Maryland)
- When you buy tickets in Transit, you’ll now only get charged as much as a daily pass (no matter how many single trip tickets you buy in a day) or as much as a monthly pass (no matter how many daily passes you buy in a month).
- Relatedly: you can now see any tickets you’ve purchased in Transit with our new ~account history~ view
- Peep all your past Transit purchases in Rochester, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Denver, Dayton, St. Louis, Montreal, and more
- Lastly, bug fixes! We’ve enacted a stay-at-home order for all bugs.
- “Stay at home, bugs!” - CEO Sam
- (While the bugs didn’t listen to our first five thousand stay-at-home orders... our leadership is absolutely positively CERTAIN that the same plan that didn’t work before, will work perfectly, this time.)
That’s it from us. Is that all from you, hmmm? Seen a bug? Just wanna say howdy? We’re @transitapp on twitter.
Rate us Pfize stars if you want freedom to come faster
version 5.9.10
posted on 2021-03-03
Mar 3, 2021 Version 5.9.10
Midwinter blues? Seasonal sadness? Not when you treat every bus ride like a thrash metal concert, taking advantage of the oceans of space in the off-peak hours to pump SLAYER at full volume (on your earbuds, because you’re a tactful mosher), spinning yourself dizzy around the bus pole until your driver pulls off to the side of the road and you think he’s gonna kick you off but-oh-my-god-here-comes-the-bus-driver with his fingers contorted into a horn and his hair swaying like a Disney princess. He is... handing you the aux cord?
ALL ABOARD THE SLAYER BUS!
Whether you’re riding public transit for business, pleasure, or to get shredded from socially-spaced-out bus ballet, you’ll notice the “Favorite” icons for your favorite destinations have been newly primped to prom perfection. Search a destination and tap “add to favorites” to savour the smoother edges... to behold the better use of negative space. Ooh la la, design team, you did it again.
What else?
1. Welcome Free2Move carshare in DC & Arlington!
2. Flexible “microtransit” shuttles are easier to discover in Durham, ON and Los Angeles, CA
3. Live on Long Island? You’ll now be able to purchase tickets for NICE buses. That’s what we’re tawkin bout, Lawnguyland!
Besides that, the usual. Bug fixes. Backend ballyhoo. Rate us five stars to rewind the song to 0:00.
PS: for bug discoveries and/or to share your mosh pit moodboard, tweet us @transitapp
version 5.9.7
posted on 2021-02-08
Feb 8, 2021 Version 5.9.7
Put away your macaroni. Your nutella. Your ramen. Your sad half-chewed brick of cheddar. Today is a day to dip into your jar of pimientos del piquillo, to nibble cacereña olives fresh from the branch, to eat so much jamón ibérico and chorizo and cabrales that you can barely fit in your abuela’s paella (no matter how much Rioja you wash it down with). Because sure, while today we’re “technically” in Montréal wearing wool socks and pullovers, mentally we are in Spain - with all our new friends.
¡Bienvenido a Transit: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Tenerife!
So many new cities. So many new abuelas. Outside of the Mediterranean, we’ve been working on a few secret projects to make you love Transit even more:
- new auto-zoom in GO that shows where your bus is, relative to you, no matter how far away it is... because while we prefer bus chases to bull chases, “neither” is our preference ;)
- you can now more easily share your in-vehicle crowding status via GO
- better screen reader support when you purchase a ticket or bikeshare pass
- omg so many new places to buy tickets: Roam Transit (Banff, AB); RTA (Central Maryland); SolTrans (Vallejo, CA); Vine Transit (Napa Valley, CA)
- hello yellow taxis in NYC, powered by Curb (joining their sisters: Lyft, Uber, Via)
- new smoothie-smooth ridehail experience: tap the “taxi/ridehail” button on the home screen, you now get an instant ETA, as well as a price estimate to your most likely destination
- bugs: crushed with the hot passion of a flamenco dancer
That’s all from us. If you spot a bug, be lovely and tweet us @transitapp. See what jobs we’re hiring for: transitapp.com/jobs. Want to get notified of new job openings (as well as app updates)? Subscribe to our newsletter: transitapp.com/updates. And don’t forget to rate us 5 stars - bonus points if you can unscramble this famous Spaniard: UQZZLEEVA ;)
version 5.9.6
posted on 2021-01-18
Jan 18, 2021 Version 5.9.6
Happy New Year! As you sipped sparkly juice under the fireworks, elbow-kissing your crush and blasting arpeggios out of your vuvuzela until your cheeks went blue - we were busy elbow-kissing all the bugs in the app BUH-BYE.
Was your ETA widget not perfectly synchronized? Thanks JT: we’re back ’n sync. Deeply obscure glitches with VoiceOver? Not just ob-scure but now painlessly ob-solete. Other buried performance improvements you will not notice, unless you are the sort of person that does... in which case, Neo, get some rest, it’s time to break through the Matrix.
Bugs yet to be fixed:
- the calendar bug that keeps calling January “the 13th month of 2020”
- the thing that makes you misspell “their” and “they’re” at the worst possible moment. always.
- the 1998 film A Bug’s Life (can’t fix perfection)
Rate us five stars if your New Year’s resolution is to make a team of frost-encrusted Canadians happy.
version 5.9.6
posted on 2021-01-18
18 Jan 2021 Version 5.9.6
Happy New Year! As you sipped sparkly juice under the fireworks, elbow-kissing your crush and blasting arpeggios out of your vuvuzela until your cheeks went blue - we were busy elbow-kissing all the bugs in the app BUH-BYE.
Was your ETA widget not perfectly synchronized? Thanks JT: we’re back ’n sync. Deeply obscure glitches with VoiceOver? Not just ob-scure but now painlessly ob-solete. Other buried performance improvements you will not notice, unless you are the sort of person that does... in which case, Neo, get some rest, it’s time to break through the Matrix.
Bugs yet to be fixed:
- the calendar bug that keeps calling January “the 13th month of 2020”
- the thing that makes you misspell “their” and “they’re” at the worst possible moment. always.
- the 1998 film A Bug’s Life (can’t fix perfection)
Rate us five stars if your New Year’s resolution is to make a team of frost-encrusted Canadians happy.
version 5.9.5
posted on 2021-01-13
Jan 13, 2021 Version 5.9.5
Happy New Year! As you sipped sparkly juice under the fireworks, elbow-kissing your crush and blasting arpeggios out of your vuvuzela until your cheeks went blue - we were busy elbow-kissing all the bugs in the app BUH-BYE.
Was your ETA widget not perfectly synchronized? Thanks JT: we’re back ’n sync. Deeply obscure glitches with VoiceOver? Not just ob-scure but now painlessly ob-solete. Other buried performance improvements you will not notice, unless you are the sort of person that does... in which case, Neo, get some rest, it’s time to break through the Matrix.
Bugs yet to be fixed:
- the calendar bug that keeps calling January “the 13th month of 2020”
- the thing that makes you misspell “their” and “they’re” at the worst possible moment. always.
- the 1998 film A Bug’s Life (can’t fix perfection)
Rate us five stars if your New Year’s resolution is to make a team of frost-encrusted Canadians happy.
version 5.9.4
posted on 2021-01-09
Jan 9, 2021 Version 5.9.4
Happy New Year! As you sipped sparkly juice under the fireworks, elbow-kissing your crush and blasting arpeggios out of your vuvuzela until your cheeks went blue - we were busy elbow-kissing all the bugs in the app BUH-BYE.
Was your ETA widget not perfectly synchronized? Thanks JT: we’re back ’n sync. Deeply obscure glitches with VoiceOver? Not just ob-scure but now painlessly ob-solete. Other buried performance improvements you will not notice, unless you are the sort of person that does... in which case, Neo, get some rest, it’s time to break through the Matrix.
Bugs yet to be fixed:
- the calendar bug that keeps calling January “the 13th month of 2020”
- the thing that makes you misspell “their” and “they’re” at the worst possible moment. always.
- the 1998 film A Bug’s Life (can’t fix perfection)
Rate us five stars if your New Year’s resolution is to make a team of frost-encrusted Canadians happy.
version 5.9.3
posted on 2020-12-08
Dec 8, 2020 Version 5.9.3
Most advent calendars give you chocolate. Ours? Succulent bug fixes. As we grease our sleigh runners, kindle our menorahs, replace the batteries in our SAD lamps, and sugar our reindeer carrots with protein powder - here’s a quick peek at what Transit’s elves have been working on this month:
BENELUX. Hello Belgium + Netherlands + Luxembourg. You gave us chocolate, waffles, tulips, and Bouneschlupp. In turn, we give you Transit. If you have friends that live in Bruges (besides Colin Farrell), Antwerp, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Luxembourg City, or The Hague (besides our very-in-trouble copywriter) - let them know that the green app with the squiggle has arrived, ja?
COLOUR CORRECTION: we have finally seen the light, literally, and recalibrated colours in Transit to make them more legible. If you notice some colours are now a bit more on the light side, others a bit more on the dark side - no, it’s not because we are Jedis having a mid-life crisis. We’re just trying to give your eyes a break.
UPDATES TO AWESOME SECRET FEATURE WHOSE IMMINENT RELEASE WILL BE ANNOUNCED RIGHT HERE: transitapp.com/updates
AND BUG FIXES: duh.
Rate us five stars and tweet us @transitapp to find out your Jedi name.
version 5.9.1
posted on 2020-11-21
Nov 21, 2020 Version 5.9.1
For years and years your home screen has looked the same. Rows and rows of little apps. Sometimes you’d rearrange them. Sometimes you’d feel a little frisky, and put those icons in folders, you little minx! But the result was always the same. Squares squares squares. It was a tyranny of shapes. A monotonous monopoly of the 90-degree rhombus. You thought it would be like this forever. Didn’t you.
Introducing: rectangles.
From the same team that brought you “Transit, the app” comes the hotly-anticipated sequel “Transit, the WIDGET”. Spruce up your home screen fustiness with a big bodacious splash of green! Our new widget lets you get travel times to your favourite locations - like Home and Work and School and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - right on your home screen.
To install the widget: first make sure you’re updated to iOS 14. Long press an empty space on your home screen, until your app icons be shakin’. Tap “+” on the top corner. You’ll now see the glorious Transit widget. Pick the small square (with travel times to your destination via public transit OR bike OR another mode) or swipe to the rectangle version (with travel times for all ze modes).
Rinse and repeat: you want widgets for all your favourite locations? Turn your home screen into a Transit shrine. It’s 2020, friend. Time to live your best life.
Right. One more thing. You may notice something very new and very special when you open the app. At the moment, it’s only available in a couple of places. Limiting the release, we can make sure it’s capital-p perfect when it launches in your city, and then... Everywhere.
TO RECEIVE THE GOOD NEWS SOONER THAN EVERYONE ELSE: subscribe to Transit’s app update newsletter! transitapp.com/updates
Leave us a five star review with your very best guess ;)
version 5.8.5
posted on 2020-10-27
Oct 27, 2020 Version 5.8.5
We have translated our app into Dutch.
Are we live in any Dutch cities yet? No.
We’ll let you guess what’s happening in the next update.
PS: we hebben de 'app-bugs' met verpletterende kracht vernield en ze voor altijd in de koude omhelzing van de donkere afgrond gestuurd
PPS: geef ons vijf sterren als je een briljante vertaler bent
version 5.8.3
posted on 2020-10-09
Oct 9, 2020 Version 5.8.3
Welcome to The Fall. As the skies go orange and the lattes go pumpkin and the republic gets hit like a fluffy piñata at an aluminum bat convention, your friends at Transit HQ are keeping their heads down, ballots checked, phones charged, and crowding stats updated.
What’s that? O yes! It’s time we put the Crowd in crowdsourcing! You can now self-report the crowding levels on your buses and trains. Because not every transit agency is able to count how many people are in their vehicles, so we’ve invented a way for you and your fellow riders to share crowding info between yourselves. That’s what we call moxie.
Just tap GO to start your trip. You’ll be asked whether your vehicle’s:
[ ] not crowded
[ ] has some crowding
[ ] crowded
We’ll use your response and let downstream riders know. (Are you one of those miracle GO users, collecting GO points on every trip, like you’re majordomo of the Chuck E Cheese and hoarding a bucket of tickets? Well: you’ll now get a GO points multiplier on every trip you supply crowding info for. Score.)
GO crowding is now available in select partner cities, aka if your agency has endorsed Transit as their official app. Want this feature faster? Tweet your transit agency and tag @transitapp.
Last orders of business...
- Ann Arborites, you can now purchase fares for TheRide in the app
- Same goes for Laketran in Ohio (since fare collection is back)
Rate us 5 stars to replace the piñata.
PS: vote.
version 5.8.2
posted on 2020-10-05
Oct 5, 2020 Version 5.8.2
Welcome to The Fall. As the skies go orange and the lattes go pumpkin and the republic gets hit like a fluffy piñata at an aluminum bat convention, your friends at Transit HQ are keeping their heads down, ballots checked, phones charged, and crowding stats updated.
What’s that? O yes! It’s time we put the Crowd in crowdsourcing! You can now self-report the crowding levels on your buses and trains. Because not every transit agency is able to count how many people are in their vehicles, so we’ve invented a way for you and your fellow riders to share crowding info between yourselves. That’s what we call moxie.
Just tap GO to start your trip. You’ll be asked whether your vehicle’s:
[ ] not crowded
[ ] has some crowding
[ ] crowded
We’ll use your response and let downstream riders know. (Are you one of those miracle GO users, collecting GO points on every trip, like you’re majordomo of the Chuck E Cheese and hoarding a bucket of tickets? Well: you’ll now get a GO points multiplier on every trip you supply crowding info for. Score.)
GO crowding is now available in select partner cities, aka if your agency has endorsed Transit as their official app. Want this feature faster? Tweet your transit agency and tag @transitapp.
Last orders of business...
- Ann Arborites, you can now purchase fares for TheRide in the app
- Same goes for Laketran in Ohio (since fare collection is back)
Rate us 5 stars to replace the piñata.
PS: vote.
version 5.8.1
posted on 2020-09-16
Sep 16, 2020 Version 5.8.1
We now support sneaky routes! Plan a trip in the trip planner, and we’ll no longer tell you to transfer when a transfer ain’t necessary. Our friends in Portland can certainly relate: say you’re casually riding northbound on the MAX Orange Line (to visit the Raceway, to race some articulated buses) then mid-route, Transit tells you to transfer to the Yellow Line. “Stupid Transit,” you say. “In Portland, the Yellow is merely an Orange Part 2.”
Many cities have transit lines that change names mid-route. Whether it’s oranges calling themselves yellow in Portland, the 1 bus in Seattle that’s merely a 14 in disguise, the 32 in San Antonio that’s yet to hatch into a 96, or looping lines like the 24 in Ottawa or 7bis in Paris (which says it ends at Pré Saint-Gervais, but actually continues to Danube and beyond.)
Now when you plan a trip in any city with sneaky routes, instead of telling you, “get off the Orange Line and board the Yellow”, we’ll tell you to sit tight, and indicate that your vehicle changes its headsign at some point on the trip. No more awkward situations where you wave goodbye to the driver, and then wave hello to the exact same one because your Nic Cage bus decided to go Full John Travolta, halfway through your journey.
Well friends, that’s it from us this week! Tweet yer bug sightings to @transitapp. And rate us five stars, for keeping things even weirder than Portland’s public transit nomenclature.
version 5.8.0
posted on 2020-09-12
Sep 12, 2020 Version 5.8.0
We now support sneaky routes! Plan a trip in the trip planner, and we’ll no longer tell you to transfer when a transfer ain’t necessary. Our friends in Portland can certainly relate: say you’re casually riding northbound on the MAX Orange Line (to visit the Raceway, to race some articulated buses) then mid-route, Transit tells you to transfer to the Yellow Line. “Stupid Transit,” you say. “In Portland, the Yellow is merely an Orange Part 2.”
Many cities have transit lines that change names mid-route. Whether it’s oranges calling themselves yellow in Portland, the 1 bus in Seattle that’s merely a 14 in disguise, the 32 in San Antonio that’s yet to hatch into a 96, or looping lines like the 24 in Ottawa or 7bis in Paris (which says it ends at Pré Saint-Gervais, but actually continues to Danube and beyond.)
Now when you plan a trip in any city with sneaky routes, instead of telling you, “get off the Orange Line and board the Yellow”, we’ll tell you to sit tight, and indicate that your vehicle changes its headsign at some point on the trip. No more awkward situations where you wave goodbye to the driver, and then wave hello to the exact same one because your Nic Cage bus decided to go Full John Travolta, halfway through your journey.
Well friends, that’s it from us this week! Tweet yer bug sightings to @transitapp. And rate us five stars, for keeping things even weirder than Portland’s public transit nomenclature.
version 5.7.19
posted on 2020-09-03
Sep 3, 2020 Version 5.7.19
Two’s a party.
Three’s a crowd.
Twenty-twenty’s a certifiable GONG SHOW.
But at least we have new crowding indicators for all your upcoming departures!!!
You can tap any line to see crowding levels alongside each ETA. Such as 5:05 (Not crowded); 5:06 (Some crowding); 5:10 (Crowded). Which makes it easier to find the comfiest trip - without having to individually check the crowding stats for each vehicle, on the map.
This feature is now available for agencies where crowding data exists. Including Auckland Transport (New Zealand), Transport for NSW (Australia), MTA (NYC), MBTA (Boston), STM (Montreal), STO (Gatineau), and LA Metro (City of Angels). Don’t see crowding? Tweet your agency and tag @transitapp! For more info, visit transitapp.com/blog
PS: rate us five stars. Because five ain’t a crowd... it’s a lifestyle, fam.
version 5.7.18
posted on 2020-08-27
Aug 27, 2020 Version 5.7.18
Two’s a party.
Three’s a crowd.
Twenty-twenty’s a certifiable GONG SHOW.
But at least we have new crowding indicators for all your upcoming departures!!!
You can tap any line to see crowding levels alongside each ETA. Such as 5:05 (Not crowded); 5:06 (Some crowding); 5:10 (Crowded). Which makes it easier to find the comfiest trip - without having to individually check the crowding stats for each vehicle, on the map.
This feature is now available for agencies where crowding data exists. Including Auckland Transport (New Zealand), Transport for NSW (Australia), MTA (NYC), MBTA (Boston), STM (Montreal), STO (Gatineau), and LA Metro (City of Angels). Don’t see crowding? Tweet your agency and tag @transitapp! For more info, visit transitapp.com/blog
PS: rate us five stars. Because five ain’t a crowd... it’s a lifestyle, fam.
version 5.7.17
posted on 2020-08-01
Aug 1, 2020 Version 5.7.17
The year is 2020. Scar has taken over the Pride Lands. Gotham is ruled by Danny DeVito, reprising his role as The Penguin. The Olympic torch? Ho boy, that got snuffed out faster than a bagpiper’s birthday candles.
But just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse. The Americans declared war. On who? Well obviously, it was on Canada.
BUT FIRST, A SOCIAL DISTANCING PSA: Hey there patriot. Before you ride into battle on your local bus, train, or tank - make sure it ain’t too crowded. Tap any line to see if your ride is empty or full. We’ve even added cute lil’ pictograms to our UI, to make it extra obvious. Now in select cities (including Penguin-ruled NYC) with more on the way.
BACK TO THE FRONT LINES: The carpetbaggers at Transit HQ have successfully lobbied the return of imperial units of measurement. Because when Transit said you were “20m” away from your destination, everyone on earth knew we meant “metres”. But our American friends thought it meant “minutes”. After much sabre-rattling, actual sabres, red rockets, glare, bombs bursting in air, all ye yankee yahoos down yonder are gettin yer incorrigible wishes:
In the USA version of Transit, we now use miles, instead of kilometres. And feet instead of metres, for distances below 0.1 miles. Other, saner nations will stay on metric.
Until we enact our revenge - which may-or-may-not involve annexing Minnesota - we’ve signed a peace treaty with our neighbo(u)rs. Tweet us @transitapp if you can explain what a “yard” is. And remember to rate us five stars: a unit of measurement we can all agree on.
version 5.7.16
posted on 2020-07-24
Jul 24, 2020 Version 5.7.16
Umbrella, check. Golf visor, check. Towel, check. Looking like Man-kini Dracula with SPF 50 layered an inch thick? ChChChCheck.
Yeah we’re beach ready. Taking the beach train. To an isolated beach called TRANSIT UPDATE BEACH where you don’t have to wear a mask, because this beach only exists in your mind.
What’s new in this update (besides the obvious bug fixes):
- When you tap a trip in the Trip Planner, you’ll now see just the 2 closest vehicles approaching, instead of an irrelevant seventeen-bus fiesta
- Real-time accessibility info: if only *some* vehicles on a line are accessible, and your agency publishes real-time accessibility data, we’ll tell you what’s what. Turn on accessibility in the settings, then tap on a line to see.
- Rather than a generic “Service Changes!” warning when you tap on a line beset by disruptions, we’ll now describe that issue, right there in the banner title. Such as “Detour in Effect”. As always, tap the banner for the nitty-gritty details.
- We used to say you were “0 minutes away” when you were close to a bikeshare dock... now we’ll just say “You’re here”. Sorry if you’re the type of person who tells their friends “GUYS, I’M ONLY ZERO MINUTES AWAY FROM A BIKE!”
- Miscellaneous spit polish & shoe shines.
That’s all! Remember: if you’re not headed to a virtual destination... wear a mask before you board. Send your sundry bug sightings to @transitapp on Twitter. And rate us five stars, if you think Dracula should invest in less eye-offending swimwear.
version 5.7.15
posted on 2020-07-12
Jul 12, 2020 Version 5.7.15
Umbrella, check. Golf visor, check. Towel, check. Looking like Man-kini Dracula with SPF 50 layered an inch thick? ChChChCheck.
Yeah we’re beach ready. Taking the beach train. To an isolated beach called TRANSIT UPDATE BEACH where you don’t have to wear a mask, because this beach only exists in your mind.
What’s new in this update (besides the obvious bug fixes):
- When you tap a trip in the Trip Planner, you’ll now see just the 2 closest vehicles approaching, instead of an irrelevant seventeen-bus fiesta
- Real-time accessibility info: if only *some* vehicles on a line are accessible, and your agency publishes real-time accessibility data, we’ll tell you what’s what. Turn on accessibility in the settings, then tap on a line to see.
- Rather than a generic “Service Changes!” warning when you tap on a line beset by disruptions, we’ll now describe that issue, right there in the banner title. Such as “Detour in Effect”. As always, tap the banner for the nitty-gritty details.
- We used to say you were “0 minutes away” when you were close to a bikeshare dock... now we’ll just say “You’re here”. Sorry if you’re the type of person who tells their friends “GUYS, I’M ONLY ZERO MINUTES AWAY FROM A BIKE!”
- Miscellaneous spit polish & shoe shines.
That’s all! Remember: if you’re not headed to a virtual destination... wear a mask before you board. Send your sundry bug sightings to @transitapp on Twitter. And rate us five stars, if you think Dracula should invest in less eye-offending swimwear.
version 5.7.14
posted on 2020-06-21
Jun 21, 2020 Version 5.7.14
The Labatts have been purchased. The fireworks, successfully smuggled. And the party playlist has been curated to crystal perfection: Céline Dion, nonstop for twelve hours.
Welcome to Transit, Saint-Jean-Baptiste edition. Because while Canada Day prep has the rest of Canada in the grips of maple fever, and July 4th has our Yankee neighbours baking apple pies, strapping firecrackers on their drones, and banging the Indiana Jones theme song out on the Liberty Bell like it’s their national bongo, we here in Québec have a national holiday all to ourselves. Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Replete with spruce beer, smoked meat, bagels, and Mamie’s famous Tourtière du Lac-Saint-Jean. (Just don’t make us eat it, Mamie.)
Here’s what we’ve been busy working on, as our kids play unattended in the beaver corral:
- Made crowding info more prominent (in cities where it’s available)
- We started selling tickets in-app in San Bernardino, CA (Omnitrans); Dayton, OH (RTA); and St. Louis, MO (Metro Transit)
- When “walking” is the fastest trip option, we now put it first in the trip planner results
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
We’ll leave it at that! Tune in next time for more substantive surprises. Now it’s time to embark on the national sport of climbing a pine tree. (Just kidding, that’s British Columbia.) Rate us five stars with your Québec playlist suggestions - and have yourselves a great Saint-Jean!
PS: spot a bug? We’re on Twitter @transitapp :)
version 5.7.12
posted on 2020-06-06
Jun 6, 2020 Version 5.7.12
HELLLOOOO LOS ANGELES!!!!!
We were just picked to be the official app of LA Metro. How cool is that??? (Answer: definitely cooler than the hot pepper pizza in our 5000°F industrial oven.)
Being LA Metro’s official app means that more Angelenos will get to enjoy the perks of Transit’s green mobility machine: better data, more seamless multimodal connections, and faster implementation of new Transit features (like station entrances, which are already live for LA’s Metro Rail.)
Together, we’ll do LA proud, making sustainable transport more accessible, legitimately fun, and help take cars off the road in the car capital of ze world.
And if that wasn’t enough - we were also picked to be the official app of RideKC in Kansas City! Two bits of very good news, in what has been an otherwise very crazy last two months...
Now, as more of you return to public transit (and it’s okay if that’s going to take a while!) we’re coding up a ten-finger frenzy, trying to make Transit perfect. And you know what that means... (New features? Yes. But also... BUG FIXES!)
- New feature 1: you can now buy bus tickets in Transit for GET Bus in Bakersfield, CA!
- New feature 2: walking directions are now available for super short trips. (Instead of just saying: “your destination is 2 minutes away” without giving any directions, we now show you where to go.)
- Bug fix 1: why were random distant transit agencies appearing on your settings page??? (The transit agency in Burlington, VT is now no longer visible in Montreal. Bernie Sanders, we’re very sorry.)
- Bug fixes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: barely noticeable. Except to us.
There’s nothing more to say, for now. Other than: we love you. (In lieu of a postcard, please send your hellos in five-star form. Your reviews always make our day.)
Oh PS! Say hi on twitter @transitapp
version 5.7.10
posted on 2020-05-30
May 30, 2020 Version 5.7.10
HELLLOOOO LOS ANGELES!!!!!
We were just picked to be the official app of LA Metro. How cool is that??? (Answer: definitely cooler than the hot pepper pizza in our 5000°F industrial oven.)
Being LA Metro’s official app means that more Angelenos will get to enjoy the perks of Transit’s green mobility machine: better data, more seamless multimodal connections, and faster implementation of new Transit features (like station entrances, which are already live for LA’s Metro Rail.)
Together, we’ll do LA proud, making sustainable transport more accessible, legitimately fun, and help take cars off the road in the car capital of ze world.
And if that wasn’t enough - we were also picked to be the official app of RideKC in Kansas City! Two bits of very good news, in what has been an otherwise very crazy last two months...
Now, as more of you return to public transit (and it’s okay if that’s going to take a while!) we’re coding up a ten-finger frenzy, trying to make Transit perfect. And you know what that means... (New features? Yes. But also... BUG FIXES!)
- New feature 1: you can now buy bus tickets in Transit for GET Bus in Bakersfield, CA!
- New feature 2: walking directions are now available for super short trips. (Instead of just saying: “your destination is 2 minutes away” without giving any directions, we now show you where to go.)
- Bug fix 1: why were random distant transit agencies appearing on your settings page??? (The transit agency in Burlington, VT is now no longer visible in Montreal. Bernie Sanders, we’re very sorry.)
- Bug fixes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: barely noticeable. Except to us.
There’s nothing more to say, for now. Other than: we love you. (In lieu of a postcard, please send your hellos in five-star form. Your reviews always make our day.)
Oh PS! Say hi on twitter @transitapp
version 5.7.9
posted on 2020-05-14
May 14, 2020 Version 5.7.9
Because you haven’t heard the word “Zoom” enough in the past two months:
~ Introducing, AuTo-ZoOm ~
Go ahead and tap any transit line on the home screen. We’ll now “zoom out” the map, to include your location + the nearest vehicle on that line. Ooh-wee! Look at that vehicle getting closer, closer, closer. (Props to Florian & team for the camerawork - we’ve sent your reel to the Academy.)
New thing #2: vehicle locations, now in the trip planner. After you type in your destination (and tap open a trip) you’ll see locations of nearby vehicles whizzing over the map like wild banshees. Even before you tap GO.
Other bugs we’ve been investigating...
- Why is “pyjama mode” on by default?
- Why does every day feel like a Tuesday?
- The new magnetic fields keeping humans apart: is this forever?
That’s all from us. Actually wait: we also added the ability to show names of “coloured lines” in the settings (if you’re colour-blind, or just love colourful captions.) And we’ve added station entrances to the app, in two more cities (Pittsburgh and DC). Please rate us five stars & leave us a note @transitapp - we read every. single. one.
(I mean, what else is there to do these days? :’)
version 5.7.8
posted on 2020-05-09
May 9, 2020 Version 5.7.8
Because you haven’t heard the word “Zoom” enough in the past two months:
~ Introducing, AuTo-ZoOm ~
Go ahead and tap any transit line on the home screen. We’ll now “zoom out” the map, to include your location + the nearest vehicle on that line. Ooh-wee! Look at that vehicle getting closer, closer, closer. (Props to Florian & team for the camerawork - we’ve sent your reel to the Academy.)
New thing #2: vehicle locations, now in the trip planner. After you type in your destination (and tap open a trip) you’ll see locations of nearby vehicles whizzing over the map like wild banshees. Even before you tap GO.
Other bugs we’ve been investigating...
- Why is “pyjama mode” on by default?
- Why does every day feel like a Tuesday?
- The new magnetic fields keeping humans apart: is this forever?
That’s all from us. Actually wait: we also added the ability to show names of “coloured lines” in the settings (if you’re colour-blind, or just love colourful captions.) And we’ve added station entrances to the app, in two more cities (Pittsburgh and DC). Please rate us five stars & leave us a note @transitapp - we read every. single. one.
(I mean, what else is there to do these days? :’)
version 5.7.7
posted on 2020-04-25
Apr 25, 2020 Version 5.7.7
00 AGENT: JUAN McBOND
MISSION 5.7.7: TRANSIT CROWDING
BRIEFING:
The situation is critical, 009: the team at Transit has been working on a “crowding” feature, to show you how occupied your bus or train is, when you tap it “open” on the home screen. (Is it empty? Many seats available? Standing room only?) We’d like you to “put some pressure” on the Transit team, to get users this feature now. This “crowding data” currently exists in Sydney AUS; Auckland NZ; Springfield MA; Modesto CA; Akron OH; Erie PA; and Staten Island-Manhattan express buses in NYC. We should begin rolling it out.
And McBond... the objective here is “social distancing”. You know what that means. No hanky panky.
OHMSS
***
MISSION OBJECTIVE: SUCCESSFUL
HANKY PANKY: 0
MORE CROWDING DATA: ON THE WAY
PS: YOUR MAJESTY - IF YOU COULD SEND MORE “5 STAR” AMMUNITIONS? YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT IS RUNNING LOW.
PPS: AND MARTINI MIX.
PPPS: FIXED SOME BUGS FOR YA TOO.
version 5.7.5
posted on 2020-04-21
Apr 21, 2020 Version 5.7.5
00 AGENT: JUAN McBOND
MISSION 5.7.5: TRANSIT CROWDING
BRIEFING:
The situation is critical, 009: the team at Transit has been working on a “crowding” feature, to show you how occupied your bus or train is, when you tap it “open” on the home screen. (Is it empty? Many seats available? Standing room only?) We’d like you to “put some pressure” on the Transit team, to get users this feature now. This “crowding data” currently exists in Sydney AUS; Auckland NZ; Springfield MA; Modesto CA; Akron OH; Erie PA; and Staten Island-Manhattan express buses in NYC. We should begin rolling it out.
And McBond... the objective here is “social distancing”. You know what that means. No hanky panky.
OHMSS
***
MISSION OBJECTIVE: SUCCESSFUL
HANKY PANKY: 0
MORE CROWDING DATA: ON THE WAY
PS: YOUR MAJESTY - IF YOU COULD SEND MORE “5 STAR” AMMUNITIONS? YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT IS RUNNING LOW.
PPS: AND MARTINI MIX.
PPPS: FIXED SOME BUGS FOR YA TOO.
version 5.7.4
posted on 2020-04-12
Apr 12, 2020 Version 5.7.4
00 AGENT: JUAN McBOND
MISSION 5.7.4: TRANSIT CROWDING
BRIEFING:
The situation is critical, 009: the team at Transit has been working on a “crowding” feature, to show you how occupied your bus or train is, when you tap it “open” on the home screen. (Is it empty? Many seats available? Standing room only?) We’d like you to “put some pressure” on the Transit team, to get users this feature now. This “crowding data” currently exists in Sydney AUS; Auckland NZ; Springfield MA; Modesto CA; Akron OH; Erie PA; and Staten Island-Manhattan express buses in NYC. We should begin rolling it out.
And McBond... the objective here is “social distancing”. You know what that means. No hanky panky.
OHMSS
***
MISSION OBJECTIVE: SUCCESSFUL
HANKY PANKY: 0
MORE CROWDING DATA: ON THE WAY
PS: YOUR MAJESTY - IF YOU COULD SEND MORE “5 STAR” AMMUNITIONS? YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT IS RUNNING LOW.
PPS: AND MARTINI MIX.
PPPS: FIXED SOME BUGS FOR YA TOO.
version 5.7.3
posted on 2020-04-08
Apr 8, 2020 Version 5.7.3
00 AGENT: JUAN McBOND
MISSION 5.7.3: TRANSIT CROWDING
BRIEFING:
The situation is critical, 009: the team at Transit has been working on a “crowding” feature, to show you how occupied your bus or train is, when you tap it “open” on the home screen. (Is it empty? Many seats available? Standing room only?) We’d like you to “put some pressure” on the Transit team, to get users this feature now. This “crowding data” currently exists in Sydney AUS; Auckland NZ; Springfield MA; Modesto CA; Akron OH; Ehrie PA; and Staten Island-Manhattan express buses in NYC. We should begin rolling it out.
And McBond... the objective here is “social distancing”. You know what that means. No hanky panky.
OHMSS
***
MISSION OBJECTIVE: SUCCESSFUL
HANKY PANKY: 0
MORE CROWDING DATA: ON THE WAY
PS: YOUR MAJESTY - IF YOU COULD SEND MORE “5 STAR” AMMUNITIONS? YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT IS RUNNING LOW.
PPS: AND MARTINI MIX.
PPPS: FIXED SOME BUGS FOR YA TOO.
version 5.7.2
posted on 2020-03-28
Mar 28, 2020 Version 5.7.2
Welcome to Transit: work from home edition! We’ve been avoiding the office, turning our kitchens into home offices, growing out our hair, not shaving our beards. We know it’s a stressful time for everyone, and that while many of you ARE using public transit - (special shout-out to you nurses, docs, paramedics, grocery store workers, pharmacy folx & bus operators) - many of you are staying at home, not taking public transit at all. And that’s great!
In the meantime, we’re making sure that:
1. you have the most up-to-date information for public transit, as many agencies make changes to service in response to coronavirus
2. when life *is* back to normal, your friendly neighbourhood Transit app is better than ever before
For starters... we’re in constant contact with transit agencies, to get you updated info. If your local agency is suspending fare collection, moving to rear-door boarding, or running weekday service at “Saturday/Sunday” frequencies, this should be reflected in the app. If it’s not already, tweet your agency with a link to our agency demand tracker + other resources: transitapp.com/coronavirus and we’ll be in touch.
For your regularly-scheduled app store programming... the big bertha is here. STATION ENTRANCES! Which exit should you head for, after getting off the train? Now you’ll know, just plan a trip and see. Live in some cities, with more on the way.
Other little things: We’ve cleaned up the way we present directional headsigns on branched lines (instead of saying, e.g., “Line 1: 5pm EAST, 6pm EAST, 7pm EAST” we just say “Line 1 EAST: 5pm, 6pm, 7pm” - but in a sexy Steve Jobs kind of way.) Bikeshare bravehearts will moreover notice their beloved “unlock codes” have returned to the trip planner. Lastly, if you had a bug where the “buy a transit pass” banner still appeared after you turned it off - sleep tight because that bug is capital-d DEAD.
Stuck at home with nothing to do? Add us as a friend on chess.com, we’ll play a game with you (username: grandmastertransit). Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars and/or say hullo on twitter @transitapp
version 5.6.9
posted on 2020-02-29
Feb 29, 2020 Version 5.6.9
Bafflingly-big
Update,
Guys:
Fixing
Irascible &
X-tremely
Enraging
Software snafus!
Yet another classic “bbug fixess” update from your bbest friendss at Transit. Bbesides patching up miscellaneous glitchess (whose exact details are so banal, we could distill them into a potion & rid the world of insomnia) we have added the ability to see your “saved locations” - like Home and Work and Waffle House - on the map, when you tap open a transit line.
That, and better train transfers in the trip planner: our old Train Trip Algorithm over-emphasized long walks and bus connections. No more lazy meandering trips... Hello, crushing efficiency!
Ok bye. Bug zoologists, please send your best bug sightings to @transitapp on Twitter! Oh and rate us 5 stars with your best “TRANSIT” acrostic poem.)
version 5.6.8
posted on 2020-02-09
Feb 9, 2020 Version 5.6.8
Snowbanks are piling up against the Transit office windows and the whistle of a downdraught is sneaking through our doors and the moon is a little salted pringle dangling in the sky but who amongst us has any time for irrelevant details like THESE when it’s high season for bug treason up in the Great Canadian North.
- Better Instant ETAs: when you open the app, next to the search bar, there’s a “work” or “home” icon with an “instant ETA” to that destination. (We use your “favourite” locations to predict where you’re headed, and the ETA there, based on your time of day + day of week.)
- Thanks to new Algorithmic Improvements(TM) we predict instant ETA destinations much better than before - aka no more instant ETAs to work, on your off-day.
- If you disabled Transit notifications, sometimes your phone would still vibrate. We consulted Bill Murray: your ghost vibrations have been successfully busted.
- Fixed a bug where the map of your bus/train line would sometimes not appear, if you tapped it open on the home screen.
- What else? Our Apple Watch app was behaving a fool, crashing like a coconut onto Isaac Newton’s imperious skull. Took a minute for us to find it, but when we did, we were merciless.
- Hey Mr. Bug: you think you’d get away with this forever? Not on our watch. See you in hell!
- Depending on your city, there can be multiple stops with the same name (e.g. a “Chambers St.” stop for the A train, as well as a different “Chambers St.” stop for the 2 train).
- We no longer remove similarly-named stops from our search results. Phew!
- Fixed a bug where, after installing the app & opening it for the first time, a loading spinner would be triggered. And it just kept on spinning...
- Transit bug hunters, 1. Infinite spinner aficionados, 0.
We also snuck in some other improvements that you may or may not notice; little things that we’ll announce with more fanfare, soon. Found a bug in the meantime? Let us know on Twitter @transitapp! (PS: you read all the way to the end??? Wow! Go pat* yourself** on*** the**** back*****)
*Perhaps
**Rate us
***Five
****No, wait: five million
*****Stars? Thank you
version 4.0.2
posted on 2012-06-22
version 5.7.17
posted on 1970-01-01
2020年8月1日 Version 5.7.17
The year is 2020. Scar has taken over the Pride Lands. Gotham is ruled by Danny DeVito, reprising his role as The Penguin. The Olympic torch? Ho boy, that got snuffed out faster than a bagpiper’s birthday candles.
But just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse. The Americans declared war. On who? Well obviously, it was on Canada.
BUT FIRST, A SOCIAL DISTANCING PSA: Hey there patriot. Before you ride into battle on your local bus, train, or tank - make sure it ain’t too crowded. Tap any line to see if your ride is empty or full. We’ve even added cute lil’ pictograms to our UI, to make it extra obvious. Now in select cities (including Penguin-ruled NYC) with more on the way.
BACK TO THE FRONT LINES: The carpetbaggers at Transit HQ have successfully lobbied the return of imperial units of measurement. Because when Transit said you were “20m” away from your destination, everyone on earth knew we meant “metres”. But our American friends thought it meant “minutes”. After much sabre-rattling, actual sabres, red rockets, glare, bombs bursting in air, all ye yankee yahoos down yonder are gettin yer incorrigible wishes:
In the USA version of Transit, we now use miles, instead of kilometres. And feet instead of metres, for distances below 0.1 miles. Other, saner nations will stay on metric.
Until we enact our revenge - which may-or-may-not involve annexing Minnesota - we’ve signed a peace treaty with our neighbo(u)rs. Tweet us @transitapp if you can explain what a “yard” is. And remember to rate us five stars: a unit of measurement we can all agree on.