Ho-ho-ho. Merry something or other. Thank you for making our 2024 so special.
In particular, we’d like to thank y’all for the:
- 80M times you completed a trip with GO
- 9B times another rider received better real-time ETAS thanks to your efforts
- 181M times you answered a question about your local transit service
- The 5 stars you left us in your review (hehe…)
- The infinity bug fixes. Including a few bonus ones in this update ;)
We raise our glass of virgin eggnog to you!
Transit
Hello, GO Underground!
- No GPS required: we can now detect when you’re on an underground train
- How? Just by using your phone’s vibration sensors!
- The feature works in 50+ cities with subways and metros
- Just tap GO to start your trip
- We’ll show your predicted location on the map, count down the stations, and update your ETA!
- Best of all? This feature works 100% offline, directly on your phone
Here’s how we used vibrations to find your stations: blog.transitapp.com
- You can now skip back and forth on Rate-My-Ride questions about your GO trip
- Just in time for American Thanksgiving (the sequel to Canadian Thanksgiving) we’ve clarified the date of holidays when looking up holiday service changes in the app
- Enough bug fixes and improvements to fill a tofurkey
Rate us 5 stars if Transit green is your favorite fall color
- You can now skip back and forth on Rate-My-Ride questions about your GO trip
- Just in time for American Thanksgiving (the sequel to Canadian Thanksgiving) we’ve clarified the date of holidays when looking up holiday service changes in the app
- Enough bug fixes and improvements to fill a tofurkey
Rate us 5 stars if Transit green is your favorite fall color
You love the bus. The train is your main. But sometimes there’s no better way to zip around your city than with the wind at your back on a bicycle.
- Say bonjour to our all new TURN-BY-TURN bike directions. Just tap “GO”!
- Find the safest, flattest, fastest trips across your city
- Plan offline bike trips
- Customize your bike (and walking!) speeds
- For more info, read our blog at transitapp.com/bike
PS: Rate us five stars if you dig fixie bike bug fixes. Now say that five times fast.
You love the bus. The train is your main. But sometimes there’s no better way to zip around your city than with the wind at your back on a bicycle.
- Say bonjour to our all new TURN-BY-TURN bike directions. Just tap “GO”!
- Find the safest, flattest, fastest trips across your city
- Plan offline bike trips
- Customize your bike (and walking!) speeds
- For more info, read our blog at transitapp.com/bike
PS: Rate us five stars if you dig fixie bike bug fixes. Now say that five times fast.
- Secret update to our bike navigation that is not actually secret at all (but we’re keeping hush-hush about it until we add the final touches to our masterpiece)
- Fixed a bug in the space-time continuum that asked you “is your bus stop too dark?” when it was the middle of the afternoon. Turns out that sunsets are indeed a thing… thank you Sam D. for recalibrating our sundials.
Rate us five stars for saying “look mom, no handlebars!” as we pedal to the moon
- Secret update to our bike navigation that is not actually secret at all (but we’re keeping hush-hush about it until we add the final touches to our masterpiece)
- Fixed a bug in the space-time continuum that asked you “is your bus stop too dark?” when it was the middle of the afternoon. Turns out that sunsets are indeed a thing… thank you Sam D. for recalibrating our sundials.
Rate us five stars for saying “look mom, no handlebars!” as we pedal to the moon
- Feral service alerts have been tamed, no more inconsistencies when you look up different stops or route directions
- Labels for bike lanes in the trip planner have been switched to “frog green” from “croc green” despite the crocodiles’ tears of protest
- Plenty of behind-the-scenes changes, soon yours to discover, just like the license plates of Ontario
Well, that’s it! Stay tuned for a big summer of feature announcements ;)
- Feral service alerts have been tamed, no more inconsistencies when you look up different stops or route directions
- Labels for bike lanes in the trip planner have been switched to “frog green” from “croc green” despite the crocodiles’ tears of protest
- Plenty of behind-the-scenes changes, soon yours to discover, just like the license plates of Ontario
Well, that’s it! Stay tuned for a big summer of feature announcements ;)
Our release notes writer is taking some time off. Before leaving, he texted every Transit employee an inscrutable hyperlink.
Turns out it’s no phishing scam: it’s a map of our bard’s bagel-fueled bike trip, coast-to-coast across the USA. Hopefully his bike experience comes in handy for next release notes…
Transit writer? More like bike rider amirite ha ha come back soon we are not very good at writing these without you
Also, bug fixes.
Rate us 5 stars and send our cycling scribe some love
Our release notes writer is taking some time off. Before leaving, he texted every Transit employee an inscrutable hyperlink.
Turns out it’s no phishing scam: it’s a map of our bard’s bagel-fueled bike trip, coast-to-coast across the USA. Hopefully his bike experience comes in handy for next release notes…
Transit writer? More like bike rider amirite ha ha come back soon we are not very good at writing these without you
Also, bug fixes.
Rate us 5 stars and send our cycling scribe some love
We’ve been whittling the spring away in sing-song toil at Transit HQ, making pull request after melodious pull request, setting you all up for some sub-premely impressive midsummer announcements.
As we put the finishing touches on our metro-politan magnum opuses, you’ll have to settle for the usual sequence of bug abatements and new market launches: Porto! Lisbon! Dubai! Scotland! Bisous, bisous.
Rate us five stars to pay your respects to the Transit devs beasting in the Underground.
As the mercury meter hops around like a jack-in-the-box, we’re bringing you a weatherproofed wagon of spring cleaning improvements, like:
- Better bicycle trip plans. More options, fewer overlapping legs/zigzagging portions, and stronger biases for bike paths and lightly trafficked roads
- Added bathtub plugs and caulking to leaky strings in the UI, everything is pixel-perfect now
Rate us five stars to ask Helios and his solar horses for five more solar eclipses
Whoever planned the annual American public transit conference to be in NEW ORLEANS and overlap with MARDI GRAS? We salute you… and fear you.
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.
Whoever planned the annual American public transit conference to be in NEW ORLEANS and overlap with MARDI GRAS? We salute you… and fear you.
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.
To keep the winter at bay, our designer Béa knitted up some 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.
PS: App glitch? Dropped stitch? We’re @transitapp on Twitterville. Rate us five stars if your usual place is the Milky Way.
- 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 many nearby overlapping transit lines
- Other bug fixes as dry as the day is long
Don’t forget to rate us 5 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?
- 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 many nearby overlapping transit lines
- Other bug fixes as dry as the day is long
Don’t forget to rate us 5 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?
- 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 many nearby overlapping transit lines
- Other bug fixes as dry as the day is long
Don’t forget to rate us 5 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?
- 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 many nearby overlapping transit lines
- Other bug fixes as dry as the day is long
Don’t forget to rate us 5 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?
• We just launched the NYC Subway Rat Detector' to let you report rat sightings on the subway
• See the leaderboard of rattiest stations: transitapp.com/rats
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)
• We removed the “protected lane tag” for shared bus + bike lanes in the bicycle trip planner
• Other black magic, potions, and spells, per usual
- Our real-time detour detector is now up and running in Vermont, Vegas, Baltimore, and Torrance, CA, with help from our swift-footed friends at Swiftly.
- As we continue to master the detour, we have somehow perfected the segue:
- Better bike directions are now live! Plan a trip, see elevation levels for different trips, and the % covered by bike paths
- We now have a less confusing way to display vehicle positions on transit lines with branches and loops, and local lines that run express.
- Our real-time detour detector is now up and running in Vermont, Vegas, Baltimore, and Torrance, CA, with help from our swift-footed friends at Swiftly.
- As we continue to master the detour, we have somehow perfected the segue:
- Better bike directions are now live! Plan a trip, see elevation levels for different trips, and the % covered by bike paths
- We now have a less confusing way to display vehicle positions on transit lines with branches and loops, and local lines that run express.
Taylor Swift: transit icon? The banjo-bound hordes are setting ridership records — in this edition of Transit we’ve thus decided to:
- Shake It Off (“it” being the deluge of real-time feeds we were accidentally loading simultaneously, which slowed the app to a crawl if you happened to be near a lot of transit lines)
- 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.
Taylor Swift: transit icon? The banjo-bound hordes are setting ridership records — in this edition of Transit we’ve thus decided to:
- Shake It Off (“it” being the deluge of real-time feeds we were accidentally loading simultaneously, which slowed the app to a crawl if you happened to be near a lot of transit lines)
- 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.
We’re thrilled to announce that OC Transpo, every Sens fan’s favourite transit agency, is now giving EVERYONE IN OTTAWA free Royale (including the urbanist snakes). 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: rate us five stars for extra garlic sauce on the fries
We’re thrilled to announce that OC Transpo, every Sens fan’s favourite transit agency, is now giving EVERYONE IN OTTAWA free Royale (including the urbanist snakes). 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: rate us five stars for extra garlic sauce on the fries
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 <3)
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 <3)
Now, you can say THANK YOU! to riders who share real-time locations via GO
- Tap any line, then tap the vehicle icon
- If real-time is being provided by a GO rider? You’ll see their GO emoji avatar on the vehicle icon
- Wanna show some gratitude? Tap “say thanks”!
- We’ll thank them on your behalf & carry them off the field on our shoulders while the whole stadium screams “WE LOVE YOU!” like in the movies
That’s it from us. Rate us five stars to spin the propeller hat to liftoff velocity
- Did you plan a trip from your “current location”, start walking, then plan a new trip?
- Good news: we’ll no longer tell you to “walk ten minutes to the bus stop” when you are already at the bus stop, looking fabulous.
- Just refresh the trip planner to bring your “current location” up to speed!
Other than that, we fixed some bugs under the glow of candlelight, during the Great Montreal Ice Storm of April 2023.
Rate us five-stars because we need the light… we’re running out of wax!!!
- Did you plan a trip from your “current location”, start walking, then plan a new trip?
- Good news: we’ll no longer tell you to “walk ten minutes to the bus stop” when you are already at the bus stop, looking fabulous.
- Just refresh the trip planner to bring your “current location” up to speed!
Other than that, we fixed some bugs under the glow of candlelight, during the Great Montreal Ice Storm of April 2023.
Rate us five-stars because we need the light… we’re running out of wax!!!
For “best performance in a roving detour”: Transit got the Oscar for detecting bus detours in real-time. Now live in Montreal. Full details at blog.transitapp.com
For “most dynamic visual effects”: Transit dev Laurence won big for her introduction of Dynamic Type. Now, small text on your home screen will appear bigger — following your system settings.
Thanks to TikTokker @haydenbegley for using Transit to get to the Oscars. We’ve planted 5 stars in her honor on the Release Notes Walk of Fame.
For “best performance in a roving detour”: Transit got the Oscar for detecting bus detours in real-time. Now live in Montreal. Full details at blog.transitapp.com
For “most dynamic visual effects”: Transit dev Laurence won big for her introduction of Dynamic Type. Now, small text on your home screen will appear bigger — following your system settings.
Thanks to TikTokker @haydenbegley for using Transit to get to the Oscars. We’ve planted 5 stars in her honor on the Release Notes Walk of Fame.
For “best performance in a roving detour”: Transit got the Oscar for detecting bus detours in real-time. Now live in Montreal. Full details at blog.transitapp.com
For “most dynamic visual effects”: Transit dev Laurence won big for her introduction of Dynamic Type. Now, small text on your home screen will appear bigger — following your system settings.
Thanks to TikTokker @haydenbegley for using Transit to get to the Oscars. We’ve planted 5 stars in her honor on the Release Notes Walk of Fame.
Our release notes writer is on holiday so we’re letting ChatGPT take his first crack at release notes:
* Added support for features
* Took away support for bugs
* Added search functionality to display “Choose on map” after tapping “Where to?” for improved user experience
* Took away support for “release notes writer keeps calling the office, he’s worried about the new copy-writing robot
- Hello: Live notifications
- Stay attuned to the status of your GO trip, no app open required
- “Leave in x minutes!” “Get off at y station!” “Walk to z address!” — these are things for which we used to send a push notification: boring
- Now, once you start a GO trip, we’ll give you the relevant update, right on your lock screen: amazing
- Live notifications will disappear once your GO trip is over
PS: The only thing we love more than gingerbread cookies? A glowing end-of-year 5 star review ;)
Peak foliage. Manic squirrels. The annual rite of slapping together the lowest-effort Halloween costume in an hour or less. (You spent months on your outfit? We put mascara on our nose and called ourself a “cat”. Meow! Time flies when you’re chasing bugs.)
In this update:
- Hello free Royale for Hele-On (Hawaii), Huron Shores Area Transit (Ontario), and PVTA (Massachusetts)
- New (belated) birthday-themed app icon and launch screen
- Other things you won’t notice now but maybe you will later.
Hello back-to-school, back-to-hockey, back-to-flannel-and-cardigans, but most of all GOODBYE LATE SUMMER BUGS!
Besides bug fixes…
- Calgary Transit riders can now purchase fares + hail on-demand shuttles in the app!
- Free Royale for everyone in Las Vegas, New Orleans, Flagstaff, Central Maryland, and Vermont… and at the Universities of Iowa, Montana, and Maryland, too.
- RIP pumpkin spice latte. All hail butternut squash cortado.
Rate us 5 stars to unlock the smell of fresh school supplies.
Happy 10th birthday to Transit!
We’re entering the 2nd decade of Transit the best way we know how… with bug fixes.
Also:
- Can’t tell the difference between “scheduled departure” vs. “real-time departure”? Or an “officially cancelled trip” vs. a “most-likely cancelled trip”?
- Hallelujah! We’ve added a little explainer.
- Hello free Royale for: BUSIT + Orbus (New Zealand) and Ben Franklin Transit (Washington state)
Now make a wish & rate us 5 stars to blow out half of our birthday candles
It’s camping season. Time to head to the woods and enjoy life’s simple pleasures: the sunrise… the night sky… mosquitos the size of miniature horses…
- Did the bus pass you by — or did it not come at all?
- We’ve updated GO to diagnose any missed departures
- In Royale news…
- We’ve added a new “Lost your subscription?” section if you’ve got a new phone, misplaced your Royale subscription, etc.
Rate us 5 stars, cuz we’re hoping for a starry night! (We forgot our flashlight.)
- Goodbye Mr. Freeze-themed splash screen
- 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
- Disappearing buses in GO have had their invisibility privileges revoked
- Hello free Royale if you ride: Belleville Transit (Ontario), Tri Delta Transit (California), or Réseau LEO (France)
All that and plenty more under-the-hood. Rate us five stars to get more spring in your step!!
~ hello, schedule changes ~
- is your line running at reduced frequencies?
- is it now only during rush hour?
- is a holiday going to affect the schedule?
Tap any line to find out.
Coming to all cities soon. (If you’re subscribed to Transit Royale, you should see it now.)
What else?
We’re sending Transit Royale subscriptions to everyone who rides the following agencies: LA Metro, RideKC (Kansas City), UTA (Salt Lake City) + more!
Little design tweak coming your way today: we’re replacing the “star” icon, which used to mark your favourite transit lines, with a more suitable “pin” icon.
We’re also introducing AUTO-PINNING: any transit line that passes by a saved location like “home” or “work” or “batcave” will appear up top.
What else? From Kalamazoo to Santa Monica — and dozens of cities in between — you can now pay for the bus with Google Pay!
Rate us f*ve st*rs and we’ll stick a pin in our puns.
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!
- The sparklers are now more sparkly
- The noisemakers have been put on mute (“Thank you” — your dog)
What do you want to see in Transit in 2022? Let us know on Twitter @transitapp
Rate us 5 stars and we’ll eat the pickled herring
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).
More agency partners coming soon.
Other than that, just a lot of under-the-hood stuff, aka bug fixes.
That’s it. Rate us 5 stars and tweet us @transitapp with your favorite witch’s spell.
~ introducing better departure times ~
When an agency tells us the bus is “5 minutes away,” now we say “5 minutes…. BUT IS IT REALLY?”
Through real-time tracking and historical analysis, we now automatically improve the quality of your departure predictions.
Now live in NYC, NJ, LA, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Denver, Las Vegas, Chicago, St. Louis and more. Look for the purple crystal ball.
Want to thank Ayser, Juan, Laura, and Romain? They’d love to hear from you @transitapp on Twitter.
Air conditioning unit? $300.
Industrial fan? $100.
The breeze from the subway going past you like woooooooooooosh? Utterly priceless.
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: Rate us five stars!
- Woo! Rail is now prioritized on the home screen
- (We realize you’ll often walk farther to catch a train. So we now show you faraway trains, before faraway buses)
- Fare capping is now live for all the following systems: RTS Rochester, Dayton RTA, Central Maryland RTA
- Relatedly: you can now see all your past Transit purchases, now in select cities, more coming
PS: Seen a bug? Just wanna say hi? We’re @transitapp on twitter :)
PPS: Rate us Pfize stars if you want freedom to come faster
Happy New Year! As you elbow-kissed your crush at midnight, we elbow-kissed bugs in the app BUH-BYE.
ETA widget not perfectly synchronized? Now it’s back ’n sync. Obscure glitches with TalkBack? Not just ob-scure but now ob-solete. Plus: other improvements most muggles won’t notice.
Bugs yet to be fixed:
- the calendar bug that calls January “the 13th month of 2020”
- the 1998 film A Bug’s Life (can’t fix perfection)
Rate us five stars to make a team of frost-encrusted Canadians happy.
BENELUX! Hello Belgium + Netherlands + Luxembourg. You gave us chocolate, waffles, tulips, and Bouneschlupp. In turn, we’re giving your cities the gift of Transit.
COLOUR CORRECTION! we have finally seen the light, literally, and recalibrated colours in Transit to make them more legible.
IMMINENT SECRET FEATURE TO BE ANNOUNCED HERE: transitapp.com/updates
AND BUG FIXES: duh.
Rate us five stars to keep the Transit elves happy
So your iOS cousins finally get the Transit widget (ten years late). But we’ve also made our Android widget even prettier ;)
What else?
Real soon you’ll find out. Or maybe you already have? You’ll notice it as soon as you open Transit. At the moment, it’s only available in a few cities. Limiting the release, we can make sure it’s perfect when it launches in your city, and then… Everywhere.
Rate us 5 stars with your best guess
Subscribe to transitapp.com/updates to be the first to find out!
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
We now support sneaky routes!
Many cities have routes that change their names mid-trip. (Like Portland’s Orange Line, which is really the Yellow Line Part 2. Or Seattle’s 14, which secretly hatches into the 1.)
Now on these routes, instead of saying, “get off the Orange and board the Yellow”, we’ll tell you to sit tight.
No more awkward situations exiting the bus, then getting back on the exact same one!
Rate us 5 stars for keeping things weirder than Portland’s public transit nomenclature.
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). Now in select cities!
PS: rate us 5 stars, because five ain’t a crowd... it’s a lifestyle, fam.
- how crowded is your bus or train?
- now we show you, with pictograms
- is it empty? semi-empty? more packed than the backpack of a 23 y/o headed to Berlin for the 1st time? (available in NYC + select cities. more, soon.)
- also: replaced metric distance estimates with miles/feet, for our American friends
Rate us 5 stars if you’d walk 804.7 km — and if you’d walk 804.7 km more — just to be the person who walks 1609.3 km, just to fall down beside Berghain’s door…. da da da, da da da!
- We used to say you were “0 mins away” when you were near a bikeshare — now we’ll just say “You’re here”
- (Sorry if you’re the person who tells their friends “GUYS, I’M ONLY ZERO MINUTES AWAY FROM A BIKE!”)
- Tap a trip in the Trip Planner: on the map, you’ll now see just the 2 next departures, instead of an irrelevant seventeen-bus fiesta
- New: real-time vehicle accessibility for semi-accessible lines, where data exists
- More descriptive “service change" banners
Rate us 5 stars <3
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.)
What else?
- You can now buy bus tickets in Transit for GET Bus in Bakersfield, CA!
- Why were random transit agencies appearing on your settings??? (The agency in Burlington, VT is now no longer visible in Montreal. Bernie, we’re sorry.)
That’s it y’all! Rate us 5 étoiles & say hi on twitter @transitapp!
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.)
What else?
- You can now buy bus tickets in Transit for GET Bus in Bakersfield, CA!
- Why were random transit agencies appearing on your settings??? (The agency in Burlington, VT is now no longer visible in Montreal. Bernie, we’re sorry.)
That’s it y’all! Rate us 5 étoiles & say hi on twitter @transitapp!
Because you haven’t heard the word “Zoom” enough in the past two months:
Introducing AuTo-ZoOm:
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.
New thing #2: vehicle locations, now in the trip planner. Tap open a trip plan & see your bus/train hurtling towards ya.
Please rate us 5 stars & leave us a note @transitapp — we read every single one!
I mean, what else is there to do these days? :’)
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, we have added the ability to see your “saved locations” — like Home and Work and Balthazar’s Free Range Chicken Castle — on the map, when you tap open a transit line.
That, and better train transfers in the trip plan.
Ok bye. Rate us 5 stars with your best “TRANSIT” acrostic poem.
- There was a hobgoblin who would change ETAs as you flit between the homescreen and trip details screen
- Hobgoblin gone; ETAs now always consistent
- Imperceptible stability improvements to GO
- The address of a “Favourite location” will no longer occasionally drift
- Unless you have added the Mid-Atlantic Ridge separating North America and Europe as a “Favourite location”, in which case…
Rate us 5 stars to send that Dastardly Tectonic Ridge back where it came from! (About 2.5cm away)
I don’t want a lot for Xmas. There is just one thing I need. A 100% bug-free app experience… for every transit agency feeeeed ♫
I just want my code so flawless
That CEO Sam will be made jawless—
Every pixel placed precisely.
Features all behaving nicely.
Until that blessed day arrives
The “bug fix” app update survives
Do you know what that meeeans?
We’re now 0.1% closer
To our bug-free
App dreaAaAAaAAms.
TL;DR: bug fixes.
Rate us 5 stars if you read this at 150 BPM in the key of G major.
We now let you override your system settings for Dark Mode! No more ominous spooky blackness, unless you want it that way ;)
Also: we fixed the trip planner bug where we’d suggest 4 hours of walking to the train station. But question: what would have happened on that 4 hour walk? Was your soulmate left there — waiting for you?
PS: rate us 5 stars because reliable Transit trip plans >> soulmates
PPS: release notes in your email inbox? That’s a thing! transitapp.com/updates
We now let you override your system settings for Dark Mode! No more ominous spooky blackness, unless you want it that way ;)
Also: we fixed the trip planner bug where we’d suggest 4 hours of walking to the train station. But question: what would have happened on that 4 hour walk? Was your soulmate left there — waiting for you?
PS: rate us 5 stars because reliable Transit trip plans >> soulmates
PPS: release notes in your email inbox? That’s a thing! transitapp.com/updates
We now let you override your system settings for Dark Mode! No more ominous spooky blackness, unless you want it that way ;)
Also: we fixed the trip planner bug where we’d suggest 4 hours of walking to the train station. But question: what would have happened on that 4 hour walk? Was your soulmate left there — waiting for you?
PS: rate us 5 stars because reliable Transit trip plans >> soulmates
PPS: release notes in your email inbox? That’s a thing! transitapp.com/updates
First: dim the lights. Set a mood. Install Android 10. Enable Dark theme in your phone settings. WOW. SO DARK!!!
Second: Transit Accounts! Pay for *every* system with one account. (Cuz when life gives you 20 mobility apps, you gotta distill it into something simple & refreshing.) Participating partners: transitapp.com/blog
That’s it from us! Rate us five stars to unleash the beatboxing camel
PS: Sign-up for release notes emails so you don’t fall out of the loop! transitapp.com/updates
First: dim the lights. Set a mood. Install Android 10. Enable Dark theme in your phone settings. WOW. SO DARK!!!
Second: Transit Accounts! Pay for *every* system with one account. (Cuz when life gives you 20 mobility apps, you gotta distill it into something simple & refreshing.) Participating partners: transitapp.com/blog
That’s it from us! Rate us five stars to unleash the beatboxing camel
PS: Sign-up for release notes emails so you don’t fall out of the loop! transitapp.com/updates
-Fixed bug where GO said you helped between “500 million” and “17 billion” riders
-GO stats no longer count the ghosts, fairies, leprechauns and poltergeists you’ve helped along your journey
-Bike paths now appear in multimodal trip plans
-Trip planner walking speed is now 10% slower than before
-New Yorkers: sorry. It’s not you, it’s them.
Rate us 5 stars & tweet @transitapp if we should secretly increase the assumed walking speed, 0.1% per day, to get everyone walking as fast as NYers ;)
-Some NYC subways were going up-and-down on the map like a sadistic child’s creation in Roller Coaster Tycoon
-Revoked our roller coaster privileges
-Subway map back to normal
-Ridehail sign-ins broke
-Ridehail sign-ins fixed
-As always, you can make ride-hail disappear in the settings
-(Just like our amusement park guests used to disappear, in the pond)
Rate us 5 stars if you’ve enjoyed and/or survived your stay at Bugland.
Multimodal trip planner. Now with more multi.
Before you could connect:
1. scooters, or bikeshares, or ridehails with…
2. rail
Now you can connect
1. PERSONAL BIKES, or scooters, or bikeshares, or ridehails with…
2. BUSES or rail or ferries (!)
Take that, LinkedIn: we got so many connections your head will spin... while you take a Spin scooter. To a bus.
What else? It’s July. We’re at the beach. Shuck us five starfishes; we’ll whip up some bug fixes. Bye!
What do Billie Eilish, King Henry VIII, and Janet Jackson all have in common? You guessed it! None of them are from Buenos Aires, Argentina — Transit’s newest supported city.
It’s a bird it’s a plane nope wait actually sorry folks our mistake it was DEFINITELY a bird.
Give a warm “peep peep” to Transit’s newest mode: shared electric scooters. Currently available in SF, San Diego, LA, and DC from Bird, Spin, and Waybots.
Rather than juggling four different apps, just check our MAP to find a DELECTABLE ZIPPY FRIEND. Ok sorry for the all caps we’re just really excited.
Rate us five stars for capitalizing on this opportunity.
STOP ALERTS: when service on yo’ line is fine—but service at yo’ stop is not.
Tap on a disrupted line. You can now:
- Press the alert to make the danger triangle /!\ go away
- See disrupted stops*
*But only in cities that publish stop data: Montreal, DC, and… Stockholm?
That’s right, Björn, Bibi, King Carl & Mats Sundin. Welcome, Swedish city #1!
PS: tweet your agency & ask them to add stop alert data. pls.
PPS: tell the swedes
PPPS: unscramble “SFVERITAS” and tweet the answer @transitapp <3
It’s a Bird! It’s a train! Wait it’s actually both? With rail + scooter/bikeshare trips!
-See where a multimodal trip is faster than pure transit/scoot/bike.
-Get directions to the closest scoot/bike, and rail station
-Unlock + pay in one tap (for bikeshare in MTL+TOR+CHI+MPLS...)
If there’s a fast & cheap way to skip a long walk—you don’t need to do research. Keep your Kryptonite at home ;)
PS: Sorry Spider-Man, no “rail + web” support yet
PPPPPS: Send 1 star for every P in this line?
- Fixed a zoom bug
- The name zoom bug is much cooler than the actual bug, which was rather mundane
- Text in Romance languages was sometimes appearing in English
- We lit some candles, broke out the wine, now we’re much better at them
- Conoscete qualcuno che è carino, single e italiano? Devono amare i treni
- Rate us 5 stars to hear the bagpipes under the sink
The bug blasters at Transit are back in action this week, fixing up everybody’s mistakes like The Wolf in Pulp Fiction. Goodbye:
-Carsharing reservations that took forever. Now, less reservation reservations.
-Freeze-on-launch bug (when location permissions weren’t granted.)
-Miscellaneous GO crashes
-Bikesharing stations looked “empty” but weren’t.
Rate us 5 stars to have your “brain voice” sound like Morgan Freeman for the rest of the day.
Spring is in the air. So is oxygen, and baseballs. Time to update the only app you check more than “Weather”. (Sorry, Medium.)- Smoother scrolling in Nearby- Prettier carsharing/bikesharing design- Bikes/cars disappear when you’re zoomed out, but reappear when you’re zoomed in- Branch cardsare better organized- Wheelchair accessibility info added for stations and trips (opt-in in the settings)Rate us 5 stars and we’ll distill the spring in the air into the spring in your step <3
Since the start of 2018, we:- Got a gym membership.- Slipped on the ice.- Got lost (Transit wasn't updating to our new location).- Fixed the app so it always updates to our current location.- Stepped in a huge puddle.- Got a service alert notification from Transit but couldn't open it.- Fixed the app so that the above never, ever happens again.- Bought crampons.- Met our valentine at the bus stop.- Got lots of 5-star reviews from users. (Hint, hint.)
Since the start of 2018, we:- Got a gym membership.- Slipped on the ice.- Got lost (Transit wasn't updating to our new location).- Fixed the app so it always updates to our current location.- Stepped in a huge puddle.- Got a service alert notification from Transit but couldn't open it.- Fixed the app so that the above never, ever happens again.- Bought crampons.- Met our valentine at the bus stop.- Got lots of 5-star reviews from users. (Hint, hint.)
Two truths and a lie, Transit edition:1. Got rid of the bug where our British GPS “Daniel” started speaking random garbage2. Got rid of the bug where departures disappeared from our schedule view like a David Blaine trick gone horribly wrong.3. New York bagels are better than Montreal bagels.Spot the lie? Tweet your best guess to @transitapp. And don’t forget to rate us five stars—because while our release notes may only be 66.6% true, when it comes to transit times, we’re much, much better.
Two truths and a lie, Transit edition:1. Got rid of the bug where our British GPS “Daniel” started speaking random garbage2. Got rid of the bug where departures disappeared from our schedule view like a David Blaine trick gone horribly wrong.3. New York bagels are better than Montreal bagels.Spot the lie? Tweet your best guess to @transitapp. And don’t forget to rate us five stars—because while our release notes may only be 66.6% true, when it comes to transit times, we’re much, much better.
Twas the week before Christmas, inside of our office,Devs told the release team “New features? Not cautious.”So instead of an update with actual meatWe’re adding Bug Fixes™ in quasi-defeat.There was a bug on the run (and it has been seized)Who refused to plan trips if you spoke PortugueseAnd another (quite naughty) bug went on a spreeSayin—“GO? I been on dat since 1970”Please go give us five stars: send our app store rank climbing—Merry ho-ho to all. Now it’s time to stop rhyming ;)
Some stocking stuffers for our Android ho-ho-homies:MTL REAL-TIME: get live departure times for STM buses. It is a beta, so please be patient if you encounter inaccuracies while the STM perfects their recipe.PROFILE VIEW: bike/car/rideshare accounts all in one place. With GO stats, and alarms + alerts for any transit linesBRANCH CARDS: improved support for lines with multiple branches/directions in all cities.Oh! And please rate us 5 stars… we’ll put yours at the top of our tree ;)
Just when you thought all we did was kill bugs.We pull a Beyoncé.Time for Transit 4.3:Uber: request trips, watch your ride approach, rate your driver—all inside Transit.GO: gamification features that tell you how many users you’re helping.Expandable stop lists: we’ll give you actual stop names in GO.Dockless bikes in Seattle + DC.Better real-time ETAs for LA Metro.Improved Android O support.Oh yeah. And bug fixes.Rate us 5 stars to put the “eh” back in Beyonceh.
There was this thing we forgot to do and now we did it and now things that didn’t work before, do.
Little known side-effect of solar eclipses:-Can permanently burn your eyes-Can permanently burn departure times into the widgetWidget not refreshing? No problemo: we’ve given our widget a refreshing retinal transplant. It once again sees new departure times (and thankfully, so can you.)Sorry for the interruption! Rate us five stars so we can buy our widget the eclipse glasses he asked for, weeks ago. ????
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn would like to apologize for crashing your app this week.“To anyone affected, we’re deeply sorry. We thought it was a wedding.”Rate us five stars if you like your pop culture references like your whiskey (at least 13 years old)
Why write release notes when you can play Hangman?_________| || 0| /|\| /||M_NOR CRO_DSOURC_NG BUG F_XESRate us five stars with your own game of hangman (or say hi at twitter.com/transitapp, where we like to hang ;)
You look to the right (it’s a bus stop). You look to the left (it’s a rack of bikes). You look down at your feet (great feet. the best.)But which will get you home the fastest?BIKING+WALKING TRIP PLANNER: compare transit ETAs to bike/bikeshare/walking.In select cities, you can even unlock your bikeshare inside Transit.ALSO, BRANCH CARDS: quickly get ETAs for lines with multiple branches, now live in Boston + SF.Rate us five stars for putting the pedals back into bipedal transport <3
We’ve been whittling the spring away in sing-song toil at Transit HQ, making pull request after melodious pull request, setting you all up for some sub-premely impressive midsummer announcements.
As we put the finishing touches on our metro-politan magnum opuses, you’ll have to settle for the usual sequence of bug abatements and new market launches: Porto! Lisbon! Dubai! Scotland! Bisous, bisous.
Rate us five stars to pay your respects to the Transit devs beasting in the Underground.
Peak foliage. Manic squirrels. The annual rite of slapping together the lowest-effort Halloween costume in an hour or less. (You spent months on your outfit? We put mascara on our nose and called ourself a “cat”. Meow! Time flies when you’re chasing bugs.)
In this update:
- Hello free Royale for Hele-On (Hawaii), Huron Shores Area Transit (Ontario), and PVTA (Massachusetts)
- New (belated) birthday-themed app icon and launch screen
- Other things you won’t notice now but maybe you will later.
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