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We make life better without a car. Live in 500+ cities worldwide. Made in Montreal. En français svp: @applitransit
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Decade by decade, block by block, our grand avenues were turned into deadly car conveyor belts.
Our bustling public spaces were repurposed for vehicle storage.
Our cities and lives can be so much more if we just think differently about how we get around:
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Et tu Hochul? 😡
We’ve got 1.2 million New York commuters who know they deserve better and aren’t afraid to say it!
HUGE shoutout to
@transitapp
for boosting our call action to hundreds of thousands of riders all across the city!
If
@GovKathyHochul
thinks she's heard the last of riders who are FURIOUS about this $15B backstab, let us be very clear—we're just getting started.
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@charli_xcx
our DMs are open
charli keeps writing songs about driving. i just wish she’d write a song about high-speed rail
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new google maps ui still fails to render the blue line correctly and also appears to struggle with some of the double- and triple-decker streets downtown
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omg twinsies
i’ve formalized my transit pass collection with room for future expansion
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just wait until you see v2 😎
I knew Transit did biking directions – it's always an option below all the route suggestions – but I didn't know it had an overlay for safe routes.
These directions are good. REALLY good. And available everywhere! Even Google doesn't factor protected lanes into its routing.
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nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- your GO ranking
- how many riders thanked you
- no seriously it's awesome that you helped so many people get better real-time transit info
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we hadn't thought of this initially but he does make a good point
This is the craziest shit I've ever seen
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🚌✨🧘be the bus🧘✨🚌
in order to catch the bus you must learn to think like the bus
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You can no longer unlock Citi Bikes in Transit.
Lyft bought Citi Bike (and other bikeshare operators) — as a way to get you using the
@lyft
app.
Now they're killing our bikeshare features in NYC & more cities.
No more openness. Hello, walled gardens:
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Last week we added dockless scooters in SF. Today we add the last pieces:
🍋
@LimeBike
scooters
⚡️
@fordgobike
electric bikes
Now, we have ALL scooters + bikes in SF.
🛴
@BirdRide
&
🛴
@ridespin
&
🚲
@jumpbikes
&
🏍
@ScootNetworks
SF's mobility family—united at last 💯👌
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Google Maps would never
Google Maps option to meet the rats of the New York subway system
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We cranked it into high gear to bring you better bike navigation. Hop in the saddle and read all about it 👉
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🙂👉 transit + ridehail connections
☺️👉 transit + docked bikeshare
😲👉 transit + dockless bikes
🤯👉 transit + scooters
🤩👉 all the above…
Now in our trip planner. Say hello to the 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 trips in your city: 🤠
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Millions of people are still using public transit. Who are they, exactly? We surveyed 25,000 riders.
- They're essential workers (no surprise)
- 56% identify as women — just 40% as men
- Ridership is much less "white" than before the pandemic
More stats:
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Our trip planner now works...
🚇 in the deepest subway tunnels
📵 without a data plan
💀 when a server crashes
💥 if your 4G satellite gets hit by a comet
The world's first offline transit trip planner: every city, every mode.
And it's fast as hell ⏩⏩
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Rats. They're everywhere.
But mostly in New York.
We asked Transit riders to tell us when they saw rat(s) at a subway station, ran the numbers, and found which
@mta
stations had the most tails on the rails.
Behold, the great NYC Subway Rat Detector: 🐀
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We’re nobly putting our hockey allegiances aside and joining forces with the TTC to rally against our common foe: detours ⚔️🚧🛡️
We've partnered with our pals from
@transitapp
to add a new free in-app feature that will track and show in real-time any unplanned surface vehicle diversions on a one-year pilot. (Yes, planned diversions will also be there).
So when a road is blocked or closed for an emergency,
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Demand for public transit is down 61%, according to our stats. Despite this, transit agencies continue to be a lifeline for people who NEED to travel.
Here you can see real-time demand in different cities. Agencies need our help — let's lend them a hand.
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this cameo is the closest we'll ever get to winning "best supporting actor" 😂
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Snowplow season is here ☃️💥🚜
- Is your stop a boot-eating slush pit? ⛲️
- Need an ice pick & crampons to mount your bus? ⛏️
Folks in Vermont, Québec & Ottawa are being asked about the snowcessibility of their stop.
With this data, we can build a 1-800-ZAMBONI for bus stops.
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All the scooters. All the bikes. All the buses and trains.
We just raised a $17.5M Series 🅱️ to build the Switzerland of mobility.
Come see how 👉
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me and who
Forever just trying to design bike lanes that I can ride side by side with my favourite person.
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Return Of The Jedi: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Return Of Transit's Apple Watch app:
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For driverless trains? We suggest
@REMgrandmtl
🚆
For trainless apps? Try
@Apple
or
@googlemaps
! 😶🌫️
Days after Quebec's biggest transit line in fifty years started service... Larry, Sergey & Tim Apple have yet to hear about it.
Obviously, you know which app DOES support it 😏
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Until today, your GO trip lived behind the lock screen. Today we’re busting those bars wide open!
👋 Hello Live Activities
🤳 See GO updates on the lock screen
❄️ No PIN (or de-mittening) required
🎅 For iOS and Android
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╭━━━━━╮
┃█████┃●
┃ ② 🚍 it's ┃
┃ ⑤ 🚇back┃
┃█████┃
╰━━━━━╯
Transit for Apple Watch:
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Some (temporary) bad news: we're not appearing in the App Store and we're not sure why. This means iPhone users can't download the app and people who already downloaded Transit can't purchase Royale. We've speed-dialed Tim Apple but no luck so far. Will keep you posted 🤞
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Unlock any bike. Board any bus. Plan & pay for every trip and every mode — with one account, whatever the city.
The dream starts today:
Transit Accounts.
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🆕 BIKESHARE NEWS 🆕
We did it. Docked and dockless—all in 1 app.
Live in Seattle & DC.
See every 🚲 in your city:
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Transit 5.0 is out:
• Monica loves our "go back" swipes ⏬
• Unified route screen changed Erica's life 🤯
• Rita got a trip plan in one tap 1️⃣
• And Tina says the new fat search bar slaps 💥👏
Same app. More mambo: 🎺5⃣🎺
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"Transit the 🐐 no 🧢"
-
@macstories
Transit Is Still the Best-Designed Transit App on the iPhone in 2024 $AAPL
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Genie: Hello rider, you may have one wish 🧞♂️
Rider:
Fare machine:
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Rider: Can you replace those stupid fare machines & let me buy my bus + train fares in Transit instead?
🧞♂️👉 💥📮⚰️💐
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Ten years of Transit. Wow.
From the (very-deep-subway) depths of our hearts, thank you for riding with us.
Tonight we'll blow out a candle and enter our double-digit era. Our wish? More 🚲, more 🚌, more 🚈.
Bisous,
Transit 🎈👋
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Jake: Can you write about your maps?
Anton: Yes, but it'll be 3K words and you won't understand any of it
Jake: 👌
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Transit Twitter is not real life.
👉 Low-income riders are 8x less likely to get transit info from Twitter than rich riders
👉 IRL + Zoom meetings? Black and Latino riders are 2 to 4x less likely to attend
How do agencies ensure all riders are informed?
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En cet interminable début de début de printemps, la
@stminfo
et Transit t’offrent la plus belle des 🌷: le positionnement des bus en temps réel. C’est comme regarder une tulipe pousser, mais en plus rapide. ☀️🚌😳
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The Multi-Modal Holy Grail.
Fares. ETAs. Payments. And transit-oriented trips, for:
• Uber 🚘
• Lyft 🎀
• Via 🖖
• Ola 🇦🇺 & Téo 🇨🇦
See where transit + ridehail beats pure ridehail
Hello Transit+ 😱👉
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🎶 release your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin 🎶
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Avoid crowds with new real-time crowding info:
Now live for Sydney 🇦🇺, Staten Island-Manhattan express buses in NYC 🇺🇸, and 10+ other cities. More soon.
(If your agency has "crowd counters" on their buses or trains they can turn this on — tag em & ask!)
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Today we're launching something new.
You've probably wondered at some point, "how does Transit make money???"
Well... business models are hard. We've thought about ours a lot. (A LOT.)
And we're going with one that puts transit riders first:
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This is not how we expected to show up on Page Six.
NYC’s most rat-infested subway stations: New app reveals the rattiest rides
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Pour des trains sans conducteurs, on recommande
@REMgrandmtl
🚆
Pour des appli sans trains? Essayez
@Apple
ou
@googlemaps
! 😶🌫️
Mais vous savez bien qui était prêt (même une semaine avant l’inauguration) ? Nous-aut’, bien sûr 😏
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We have new policy muscle at Transit! And that muscle is a brain. A warm welcome to
@andrewsalzberg
, our new (and first!) policy advisor. He’ll be using his urbanist nun-chucks to help us unaddict cities from their cars.
We talk all things 🚲🛴🚆🚍🚘 ici:
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The
@NORADsanta
tracker:
-no open data
-no respect for down-the-chimney dwell times
-santa just be flyin
-funded by cold war era military alliance?
Baltimore's "Santa bus" tracker:
-uses open data
-santa actually stops for people
-no reindeer labour required
-funded by love ❤️🎅
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First California city to sell bus tickets in Transit!!! It's the ever-🅱️🅱️🅱️eautiful Santa Monica.
This makes it more convenient than ever to buy a ticket (and ergo, to choose 🚍 over 🚘). Big thanks to our big blue crew
@SMBigBlueBus
& the payment princelings
@tokentransit
.
😍Our favorite app just got better! You can now use
@transitapp
to buy BBB Single Ride tickets! 😱🙌
⏬Download Transit today at:
#SkiptheWait
@santamonicacity
@SaMoPlanning
@SustainableSM
@GoSantaMonica
@AskGoSaMo
@tokentransit
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@so_that_we_may
Ah, I see you've found some of our more experimental abstract work.
(We've passed it on to our team for some detangling. Thanks for the heads-up!)
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“Where’s my bus?”
—typical Transit user
“Where’s my bus ACTUALLY THO?”
—typical Transit user (after being burned by bad data)
You wanted more precise locations. We did too. Now they’re live in our 175 cities.
Hello GO-crowdsourced locations: 🎯🚎🎯
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trains are obviously Cinema. but what's less commonly appreciated is that buses are Literature
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let's gooooooooo
Exciting news, riders! We are now offering free access to Transit Royale in the
@Transitapp
. Enjoy premium features at no cost, like future departure schedules, route maps, and live vehicle tracking. Your ride just got better! For more details visit .
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DART is the largest US agency that doesn't share real-time data with other apps. Riders in Dallas look at Transit 100K times per month and see stale, scheduled times instead of real-time information. 🤔
Why? Good question...
Let's open that data
@dartmedia
. Frito pie's on us!
IDK why I didn't try the Transit app sooner. It's so slick.
I like to imagine if we could get DART's Chief Innovation Officer to try the Transit app for just one bus trip, they'd immediately open up real-time data & fare API so everything can be done thru Transit app.
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yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw 😤
#CapMetro
has partnered with
@transitapp
to help improve the experience for our riders. Get accurate arrival times and plan your trip from start to finish. Customers are automatically upgraded to Transit Royale! 👑🚍
Try it out today:
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Foiled by a redirected bus? Never again! ✊
Now riders in 3 new cities can see detoured routes right on the map…
🦀 Baltimore, MD
⛰️ Burlington, VT
🌴 Torrance, CA
…with more to come, thanks to a collab with our friends at
@SwiftlyInc
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Not sure if our users are ready for this design change! Need an opinion from
@humantransit
Network redesign: the
@transitapp
icon. The new network is less circuitous and will allow more frequent service without an increase in operating hours.
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1. Bus ETAs. They love to jump up and down 😤
2. But they’re too wild to be tamed by humans 🐎
3. We asked: could machines help? 🤖
4. Then we called Montreal's
@stminfo
👨👩👧👦
5. We did some machine learning magic...
6. Overnight? ETAs = 15% more accurate 😻
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POV: the solar system's going to pull off a perfectly-timed transfer
Catch the moon make its mid-day pit stop:
🧡 Laval: métro downtown!
🚊 Toronto: GO train to Oakville!
🚍 San Antonio: take the 93 to UTSA!
😎 Everyone else: get those ISO-approved shades ready...
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The story behind our newest, trickiest & most-requested feature
Google vs. Apple vs. Us:
🗺🗺
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bout to drop a track:
@kanyewest
bout to drop a tracker:
@transitapp
, now with real-time vehicle tracking in Montreal. Not just predictions: you can 👀 your bus on the map. It's our latest 🔥🚨🔥 collab with
@stminfo
.
We'll chase your bus. You chase your dreams. 👊
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Getting riders back won't be an easy "one trick" fix.
But mid-COVID, agencies do have obvious cards to play — like giving riders crowding info, before they board.
Riders *overwhelmingly* want this. And now, for most agencies, it's finally possible 👉👉
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sorry no cats on the subway unless they're in a box
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We’re bringing some Ooh-Là-Là, to La La Land…
We're making
@transitapp
our official app! Download Transit to upgrade your transit experience with improved trip planning and real-time information. Learn more:
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We were tired of telling people why cars are bad for cities.
So we made this:
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How much news can you fit in a tweet? Let’s try.
• New branding 🍀
• We raised $ 🎉
• And finally: 4.0 is LIVE! 👉🚦👉
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Federal transportation funding today:
💰
💰
💰
💰 💰
highways everything else
🚘 🚍🚆🚋🚲🚶♂️
It's time for
@POTUS
to change that.
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Side project time 👀❗️
To help our home province (Québec) accelerate the 💉, we built
@vaccelerateur
: it surfaces hard-to-find, last-minute vaccine appointments.
We've also added 💉 locations throughout Transit (in all cities where the data is open).
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Today Transit+ gets even more plus: with bus.
Also, ferries. Oh wait and personal bikes too.¹
Which meaaaans: if you plan a trip, we'll show you where combining 🛴/🚲/🚕 with 🚌/🚅/⛴ is faster than any one mode, by itself.
¹ set up 🏠+👔 locations & this'll work even better!!
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What you expected:
🚏🚏🚏🚏🚏🚌
What you got:
🚏❌❌❌🚏🚌
Bus detours: they're everywhere. When you find your stop's been moved? It's often too late. 😤
If only we could detect detours automatically... 🤯
Live first in MTL, in a collab with
@stminfo
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Do you use transit in:
🏔 LA (
@metrolosangeles
)
🏜 Albuquerque (
@abqride
)
🗽 Nassau County (
@theNICEbus
)
⛲️ Kansas City (
@RideKCTransit
)
🏂 Denver (
@RideRTD
)
🪕 Nashville (
@WeGoTransit
)
👇 or any of the 20 systems below?
Crack that bubbly OJ 🍾🍊— your agency got you 🆓 Royale!
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🦇 COMCAST FUTURE OF MOBILITY 🦇
—SO INCONVENIENT 😩
—NO COMPETITION 🚫
—STILL CAR-CENTRIC 🌍👉💩
🌈 THE OPEN FUTURE 🌈
—FEWER CARS 📉
—DOPER APPS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
—MULTI-MODAL PARADISE 🌴🛴🚲🚋
they told us Open APIs could never be sexy... well well well:
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Seeing agencies work together makes our heart thump like tennis shoes in a dryer 👟🎶💚
With one fell swoop,
@cincinnatimetro
✔️
@tankbus
✔️
@bcrta
✔️
@CB_Connector
(Oct 30th)
just gave Cincinnati riders a single, seamless way to pay for *all* their transit.
What city's next? 😛
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💃🇦🇷 ¡Bienvenido Buenos Aires! 🇦🇷🕺
The city just launched real-time for Subte 🚇 & Premetro 🚃 & their colourful colectivos 🌈🚍. They asked if we'd be their launch partner. We told them we'd never had a South American city in Transit before...
And they said: ¡Aún mejor! 😂
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When yo' line is fine 🚌💨 but yo' stop is not 🚏⛔️ we'll let you know before your bus zips by. Introducing... stop alerts 💪
See disruptions at your specific stop ONLY. In cities where "stop data" exists: DC, Boston, MTL, San Jose, Santa Monica, Vancouver, others. More soon! 👩💻
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Park your zambonis. Anchor your icebreakers. Cuz baby, it's bus season: yes, Montreal finally has...
🚍🙏📱REAL-TIME DATA!!!📱🙏🚍
Track your bus live. Stay warm like a husky. All you need is Transit.
Read about our partnership with
@stm_nouvelles
👇💖👇
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🆕✨ w i d g e t ✨🆕
for those days when opening an app is too stressful. the tapping of finger… the bending of joint… the typing of directions… oh, mama, spare us!
mama’s got you: instant ETAs to all your favourite locations. right on your home screen.
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Peter Dovak, a legendary designer, passed away this month.
His work filled us with joy, inspiration. He was more than talented. He was a fellow transit geek.
We were very lucky to work with Peter. He designed 60+ icons for us.
More of his work:
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there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
The pile of Divvy bikes retrieved from the lake is a work of art, looks like a Burning Man installation
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💩 just got real.
Is your city's real-time transit data bad/flakey/non-existent? Not for much longer.
Big news 👉👉
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Big day for our friends in Ottawa:
🍾
@OC_Transpo
has upgraded their real-time
🌷 Which means you can (finally!) use GO crowdsourcing in our nation's capital
🎯 Better source data + GO = the best bus locations in Bytown
⛸️ This update laces-in better trip cancellation info, too!
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San Francisco rebuilt their entire network in 2 days to focus on the most essential lines. It aims for frequent & safe & spacious service. A Herculean task.
You can see the new temporary network map in Transit.
For your city's COVID-19 service changes:
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The fight for open APIs just got new wind 💨 in its sails: Chicago now joins LA & DC (& others) requiring real-time ~vehicle locations~ so you can easily:
1. Find the closest 🚲+🛴 without 10 apps (transparent competition = 😍)
2. Plan 🚲&🛴-to-🚆 trips
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We just launched GO crowding in every city:
🦘 hop on any bus (or train)
📲 tell us if it's crowded
📢 we'll let other riders know.
Agencies often don't know how many people are on each vehicle. Thanks to GO, you’ll be able to find out.
Take a peek 👀👇
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It’s a bus? 🤔
It’s a train? 🤔
Aha! It’s a $5M investment in Transit 😘
Our plan for the city 👉👉
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When they go down, we go live ✊
Crowdsourced real-time: now in SF!
RT for awareness. More riders=better data 🌉🚌🌉
ATTN: Prediction times are not available on
#MuniMetro
,
#FMarket
, &
#ELine
. Pardon us as we work to address this as fast as possible.
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Le 14 décembre 2017, dans les livres d’histoire:
- Record d’engelures à Montréal ❄️👃
-
@stm_nouvelles
lance son TEMPS RÉEL! 🚍📡
- Transit te le sert tout chaud dans ta poche 🔥👉📱
Notre annonce:
PS: Y fait -30°C dehors, tu devrais t’en servir.
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our office: LOL who still uses iTunes to update their apps???
our users:🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋
The bug is fixed. 🎵
Transit 4.2.1—now available on iTunes.™
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The American Bus Renaissance is in full bloom. We wrote a story about the man behind it. 🌷🚍🌷
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And that's a wrap!
🎬 Our 3-year partnership with
@metrolosangeles
has come to its predetermined end™
😎 What we accomplished, and what comes next:
👑 Want to support our work in LA? Get Royale!
📬 Can't afford it? We got you. Message us in the app.
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Hey Houston. We’re adding rail and bus lines, one-by-one, as they come back online. Huge efforts from
@METROHouston
make this possible.
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There’s a reason 5-star trips are called Beyoncé in the app – all hail the queen and
@wmata
for making sure the DC Beyhive got home safe ✨
Beyoncé paid $100k to keep Washington trains running for fans attending her concert
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