Version 5.15.1401 March 2024Whoever 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 5.15.1020 December 2023Ah. 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 ([email protected]) 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 5.15.631 October 2023Strap 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 5.15.003 September 2023It’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 5.14.716 June 2023Never 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 5.14.424 April 2023- 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 5.13.522 February 2023Our 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 support for “make an oblique hint that #project-detector is launching soon”
* Took away support for “release notes writer keeps calling the office, he’s worried about the new copy-writing robot”
* Added search functionality to display “Choose on map” after tapping “Where to?” for improved user experience
* Added free Royale for “the entire state of Connecticut” thanks to the support of “The Connecticut Department of Transportation”
* Added free Royale for Niagara Region Transit, Horizons Regional Council (NZ), and START Bus (Jackson, WY) thanks to the support of themselves
PS: we hope our mobile application has given you a satisfactory experience. If you had a satisfactory experience, please consider leaving a five-star review. And if you did not have a satisfactory experience, just remember that in Canada, I am always sorry..
Version 5.13.017 December 2022It’s that time of the year. The menorahs are blazing. The allspice is thick in the air. The overpriced pine tree you got from the lumberjack is making it rain (needles) all over your floor.
So why deck the halls? Save your holly, spare your vacuum. This holiday season, we’re bedecking your lock screen!
- Hello: Live Activities
- 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)
- Aaaaaand for the lucky iPhone 14 Pro’ers among you?
- Santa has rescued his misfit notch from the darkness, and turned it into a Dynamic Island of Transit Joy!
- (If you don’t have an iPhone 14 Pro, we’ll show your GO Live Activity at the top of the screen)
- Live Activities 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. Leave us one & we’ll blaze as bright as Rudolph’s nose ;)
PPS: we’re @transitapp on Twitter if you spot any bugs (or have a wishlist wish for Transit’s elves).
Version 5.12.717 October 2022- The years start coming, and they don’t stop coming.
- Unless you’ve got a time picker bug where the picker ain’t running
- And does it make sense not to live for fun?
- No! So we switched the GO robo-voice back to our old one.
- So much to do! So much to see!
- So what’s wrong with making a bug fix?
- You’ll never know if you don’t go…
- …try and unlock a bikeshare with a QR code*
*which you can now do for POGOH (Pittsburgh) and HI Bike (Big Island, Hawaii) right within Transit!
More glitter: free Royale has been unlocked for all-stars who ride PSTA in St. Petersburg, Florida; Pierce Transit in Washington State; and Rogue Valley Transportation District in Oregon.
More gold: if your agency has gifted you Transit Royale, you no longer have to manually redeem your subscription in the app — we’ll upgrade you automatically.
Nothing more from us. Get your game on and go play, you bus-borne bandicoots.
PS: rate us five stars to replace the shape of an “L” on her forehead with a winning “W”.
Version 5.12.407 August 2022Happy 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 5.12.211 June 2022Call me by your name? Call me Hamburger Bandito. Call me Luscious Kumquat. Call me Hypno Fawn.
For those of you that ride the bus and train with GO… collecting those GO points… climbing to the top of the leaderboard… generating real-time departure times like a benevolent data duchess…
We’ve tapped you on the shoulder with the Transit scepter: you’ve now got your very own GO nickname (!) and emoji avatar (!!)
- open the app: in the top left corner, you’ll see your new GO identity
- whenever you use GO, your new avatar will bedazzle the vehicle icon as it moves down the line (showing nearby riders where your bus/train currently is)
- the new nicknames are FUN
- you can shuffle for a new nickname + emoji combo
- Royale subscribers can write-in their own names and pick their own emoji avatar
Want to taunt your GO rivals with a nickname that’s as knightly as your leaderboard scores? Use the “share” button to show off your GO ranking.
Prefer to remain anonymous? Activate ghost mode. Be the GO Banquo your city deserves.
QUOI D’AUTRE?
- You can now buy tickets for The S (Modesto, CA) within Transit
- Same for booking microtransit for NICE MINI (Nassau County, NY)
- Ibid for Milwaukee’s “famously bubblicious” Bublr bikeshare — you can unlock bikes with Transit, too
- Free Royale? Yes, m’lady: if you live in Columbus OH or Missoula MT, you’ve been granted a complimentary subscription, courtesy of your transit agency.
- “What’s Royale?” All the info is at transitapp.com/royale, m’lord.
Rate us five stars and show us your new GO nickname @transitapp!!
PS: we’re hiring developers! transitapp.com/jobs.
Version 5.11.420 April 2022Some 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 5.10.1214 February 2022Hello 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 5.10.818 December 2021You 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 5.10.419 October 2021- 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 5.10.019 August 2021Hey: 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 5.9.1803 July 2021Bug 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 5.9.1322 April 2021- 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 5.9.927 February 2021Midwinter 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 5.9.308 December 2020Most 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 5.9.206 December 2020Most 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 5.9.121 November 2020For 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 5.8.629 October 2020We 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 5.8.425 October 2020We 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 5.8.205 October 2020Welcome 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..
