Transit • Bus & Subway Times 4+

Version History

• 5.0

  Aug 27, 2018
  It’s late summer. The first day of school. You hop off the bus, onto the yard, catching up with your classmates for the first time in months: Sam got a cool scar. Juan got a nose ring. Sophie grew her hair out. But who.. who… who is THAT? The whole yard stares as the new kid pulls up, revving an e-bike.
  
  You look closer. “New kid?” NOPE! It’s your old friend, Transit. Summer did us good, amigo. Refreshed. Redesigned. But still with our signature neon green tan.
  
  Open up Transit 5.0 and you’ll say “wow.” The same, but different. Goodbye: old search bar. Bid adieu: line buttons. Holy moly: lots and lots of clever new details. Let’s dig right in, shall we?
  
  DESIGN: the most obvious change. Our designers say “we’ve made everything breathe more.” Our engineers say “since when do apps breathe?” Our release notes writer says “this is so beautiful I can’t breathe, help me.” We’ve made things more readable, structured, and a bit more intuitive. Such as…
  
  HOME SCREEN: hello bigger, more accessible search bar. We’ve moved it down from its perch, so you don’t have to strain your thumb to reach it. We’ve given it magic powers, too: using your current location (and saved work/home locations) it predicts where you’re most likely headed, giving you an instant ETA (woah) and a trip plan with one tap (double woah.)
  
  GESTURES: want to get to a previous screen? Just swipe down. It’ll save you the thumb strain of reaching for the back button. Save those thumb muscles for Mortal Kombat.
  
  UNIFIED ROUTE SCREEN: Tear down that wall Mr. Gorbachev! Which wall? The wall between trip schedules, route maps, service alerts, and GO. Tap any transit line on the home screen, and we’ll show you: the next three departure times, fully expandable schedules, the route map (with vehicle locations!), ETAs at every stop down the line, service alerts, plus a new juicy, irresistibly-tappable GO button.
  
  GO/TRIP PLANNER: we kept those super readable time-bars that show you the length of each trip leg. But we added some pizazz, like a dynamic progress bar—showing you exactly how far along you are on your journey.
  
  Now you’ve read 8.1 meaty paragraphs on our 5.0 redesign. Rest your eyes, darling. Less reading, more playing. Open Transit 5.0 and see what it’s all about. (Does it save you some thumb strain? Tip your transit chiropractor by giving us 5.0 thumbs up on the App Store!)

• 4.5

  Aug 15, 2018
  The weather forecast for today:
  
  - rain, maybe.
  - sun, possibly.
  - crowdsourcing, definitely.
  
  Bonjour. Hi. Ciao. Qué pasa? Whatever your mother tongue, whatever city you live in: if it’s supported in Transit, then crowdsourcing is LIVE!
  
  For nineteen months the Transit team has been experimenting with Crowdsourced Real-Time Transit Vehicle Location Data. (Say that five times fast and we’ll give you a medal.)
  
  We launched it in certain markets. Watched it grow from a baby, into a man. We inoculated him from the bugs of his childhood, taught him to be better behaved, and now he’s ready to take on the world.
  
  Starting today, in all 175 of our supported cities, you can watch your vehicle approach—in actual, second-by-second real-time—on the map, whenever someone on that vehicle is using GO. GO, as our OGs know, is Transit’s step-by-step navigator, telling you exactly when to leave to catch your ride, when to disembark, plus on-the-fly trip plans and transfers (should something go wrong.)
  
  Our GO feature has a wonderful byproduct: crowdsourced vehicle locations (aka CrVeLoGOs, aka never let us coin an acronym again). Those vehicle locations are now on the map, updated every second. Every time you press GO, riders down the line get to watch the best show on earth™.
  
  Even better? We cracked some code to refresh your agency's real-time faster, too! Those real-time locations should update a few seconds faster now. If your agency updates its feed really fast, you’ll notice. If your agency doesn’t update its feed as fast? Create it yourself by tapping GO. We’ll show you how many people you’re helping, and how you rank against GO riders on your line. Who’s the fairest rider of them all? Now you don’t have to ask the mirror on the wall.
  
  Rate us 7 stars so we can give one to each of Snow White’s dwarfs. (If you can’t give us 7, just 5 is fine ;)
  
  PS: Bug fixes? Logo suggestions? Want to send Katie a GIF of a squirrel? Hit us up on the Twitters @transitapp.

• 4.4.7

  Jul 19, 2018
  Two rapid-fire bug fix updates is the back-to-back Netflix special you didn’t know you wanted.
  
  In this update….
  
  new features:
  
  - NONE!
  
  bug fixes:
  
  - sometimes real-time wasn’t loading...
  - ...now it reloads so fast people accuse it of cheating in Counter-Strike
  - “trip expired” error when starting GO from the homescreen...
  - ...now trips never expire, just like that corner store where everything tastes really weird
  
  PS: Katie, our twitter queen @transitapp wants to say thanks for all the whale GIFs you sent her last update
  PPS: Our boss Sam is back from vacation… time to tweet us GIFs of Michael Scott
  PPPS: Rate us five stars and we’ll actually have a plot to our next episode

• 4.4.6

  Jul 12, 2018
  In the perfect world:
  
  1. Bug fixes wouldn’t exist…
  2. But neither would “bug fix writers”.
  
  So thanks for reading. And the employment. This version of Transit includes more perfection, but not too much. (Those nasty crash-on-launch bugs affecting GO users? Sayonara.)
  
  Rate us five stars for having the perfect amount of perfection.
  
  ***
  
  PS: the boss is on vacation, tweet your best animal GIF to @transitapp
  PPS: we really like whales.

• 4.4.5

  Jun 29, 2018
  In the bottles of fancy Mexican spirits, you often find bugs. Sometimes, it’s a worm. Sometimes, it’s a scorpion. Sometimes, it’s the three-year-old Blue Pin Bug™ that boorishly zoomed your map IN every tried you tried to zoom your map OUT… and vice versa. After three years of fermenting in the smokey casks at Transit HQ, our 2016 vintage is finally ready: La muerte de los pines tontos. We tasted. We tested. No bug can stop you now.
  
  Yes. We’re back from Oaxaca—surf boards strapped to our BIXI bikess, skin bronzed, bugs blasted, sand grains stuck in our MacBooks. Back in Montreal, we’re catching more waves than ever. Big waves. Pulsing waves. Real-time waves. But that’s not all: alongside our familiar “pulsing wave” icons (the ones that show you which vehicles on the route map are broadcasting real-time data), we’ve added… shot clocks.
  
  Is your agency’s bus tracking unreliable? Find out EXACTLY when the location got updated—up to the second. Just open your route’s map or tap GO. Just open your route’s map or tap GO. We’ll show you the number of seconds (or minutes) since we last got data for your vehicle. A green pulsing Smiley Face? That means a Transit rider is on board, broadcasting positions, via GO, second-by-second (in select markets). A colorful, pulsing bus icon? That means we’re getting data from your agency, and it’s fresh. A grey bus icon? That means the data is stale. Altogether, it’s a simpler design, no taps needed, to help you make better, faster, and more informed decisions on whether to bail on your bus.
  
  Back to bug city. We’ve implemented many-a-GO fix: like GO bus icons that weren’t showing up (sorry), GO not detecting you were on a ferry (Borat voice: ferry sorry!), and GO telling you your stop was 2 stops away, when it was more like 14. GO now works like a charm, getting ever so close to perfection.
  
  Well, that’s it from us! Rate us 5 stars and we’ll chest bump a gorilla.

• 4.4.4

  Apr 20, 2018
  It’s a bird it’s a plane nope wait actually sorry folks our mistake it was DEFINITELY a bird.
  
  BIRD. Because when you’re in the mobility business, sometimes you gotta ruffle feathers. Give a warm “peep peep” to Transit’s newest mode: shared electric scooters. You find the scooter. You push the scooter. You pull the scooter throttle, and park it wherever (but please not in the middle of sidewalks or trees). Then someone else does the same. Currently available in SF, San Diego, LA, and DC from the following operators: Bird, Spin, and Waybots. Hey LimeBike….. check gmail ;)
  
  Save your taps: rather than juggling four different apps, trying to find the closest scooter, like you are some sort of rogue private-eye who’s come down with a case of microtransit mania, just check our MAP or our TRIP PLANNER to find a DELECTABLE ZIPPY FRIEND. Ok sorry for the all caps we’re just really, really excited.
  
  Rate us five stars because we capitalized on this opportunity.

• 4.4.3

  Apr 12, 2018
  - Guess what we’re fixing up for you today?
  - (No, not those creaky pipes, although someone probably should.)
  - When we were giving bike directions, our “direction lines” were covering up the actual street names
  - Apparently you didn’t like the mystery??? Fixed.
  - Fixed a zoom bug
  - The name “zoom bug” is much cooler than the actual bug, which was rather mundane
  - Text strings in Romance languages were sometimes appearing in English
  - We lit a candle, had some wine, now we’re much better at Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian.
  - (Conoscete qualcuno che è carino, single e italiano? Devono amare i treni.)
  - Rate us 5 stars to hear the bagpipes under the sink; tweet @transitapp if you have ideas to fix them

• 4.4.2

  Apr 10, 2018
  - Guess what we’re fixing up for you today?
  - (No, not those creaky pipes, although someone probably should.)
  - When we were giving bike directions, our “direction lines” were covering up the actual street names
  - Apparently you didn’t like the mystery??? Fixed.
  - Fixed a zoom bug
  - The name “zoom bug” is much cooler than the actual bug, which was rather mundane
  - Text strings in Romance languages were sometimes appearing in English
  - We lit a candle, had some wine, now we’re much better at Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian.
  - (Conoscete qualcuno che è carino, single e italiano? Devono amare i treni.)
  - Rate us 5 stars to hear the bagpipes under the sink

• 4.4.1

  Mar 26, 2018
  “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
  —Albert Einstein
  
  “Bug fixing: doing the same thing over and over again and ALWAYS GETTING DIFFERENT RESULTS.”
  —Quan, wise Transit sage
  
  What’s up family. The bug blasters at Transit are back in action this week, fixing up everybody’s mistakes like The Wolf in Pulp Fiction. Say au revoir to:
  
  Crash-on-launch bug: now we take much longer to crash. Months. Possibly years.
  
  The inter-city bug: whenever you planned a trip that exceeded 75km, we would say “hey we can’t do that, that’s an INTER-CITY TRIP!” What we didn’t realize is that wow, cities are big. Now you can keep planning ridiculously long (>75km trips) under rare, non-inter-city circumstances, until we launch our actual inter-city trip planner. Until then, Houston, thanks for being geographically obese. There’s just so much of you to love.
  
  Black box bug: some icons weren’t downloading, and were appearing as mysterious “black boxes”. Now, like a sketchy budget airline, all the black boxes are gone.
  
  6 train bug: there was a bug where the 6 train in NYC was showing up as a “branch line”—even though the 6 doesn’t have any branches. So we signed it up for branch therapy, to put it in line.
  
  Pin bug: when you set a “Work” location pin, it wouldn’t show up on time. Now our pins always show up for “Work” on time… like the promotion-eyed keener that everyone loathes.
  
  Bug blasting, over. For a special GIF surprise, tweet @transitapp with the solution to this puzzle:
  
  R _ _ _ (rhymes with “kate”)
  U _ (Canada’s snowpants)
  F_ _ _ (square root of 25)
  S _ _ _ _ (bright celestial objects)

• 4.4

  Mar 19, 2018
  NOTE: we wrote these notes when the weather was nice. When Montreal felt like Hawaii. Then while the update was going out…. there was a huge snowstorm. Thanks for ruining our jokes, clouds.
  
  ***
  
  Spring is in the air. So is oxygen, and baseballs. Hello warm sky, fresh breeze, and updates to the only app you check more than “Weather”. (Sorry, Snapchat.)
  
  We started our spring cleaning by making some invisible changes: you won’t see what we did to Nearby mode, but you’ll probably feel it. Now you can scroll smoother than a Latin scribe.
  
  Here in Montreal, spring weather means bicycles—it also means you don’t have to shovel your car out of the snow. AKA…... time to freshen up our bike & car-sharing interface!!! We’ve added an extra dose of sunshine: tap on a bike/car, get bigger-n-brighter menus, precise walking distances, and even signup/unlocking/booking buttons (where available).
  
  Extra thanks to the Transit Houdinis who make bike/cars ~*disappear*~ when you’re zoomed out (so the map isn’t cluttered with dockless bikes) but ~*reappear*~ when you’re zoomed in (so you can size up your myriad options.)
  
  Now that we’ve tidied up our bikes and cars, time to move on to the yardwork. Chop chop: we trimmed up our branch cards. Before, branch cards would take up big blocks on your screen. If one line direction had 4 branches, and the other direction had 1 branch, both directions would take up “4 branches” worth of space. How bloated!!! So we created an Automagic Resizer, which makes sure each branch direction takes up only as much space as it needs. Minimalism, 1 — Gargantuan Branch Monstrosities, 0.
  
  But it’s not just tree limbs we’re trimming: branch headsigns are getting compacted too. Now, if a transit direction has twenty different branches all going “West”, instead of saying “West to Branch A”, “West to Branch B”, “West to Branch Z”—we just group them all under a heading that says “West”. No this was not sponsored by Kanye.
  
  We saved the best for last. So get ready. Take a seat. (A rolling seat, if possible.) Because wheelchair accessibility is coming to Transit. Flip it on it on in the settings, wheelchair icons will appear next to all accessible departures and stops.If either the vehicle or station are inaccessible, we’ll put a wheelchair with a strikethru. (No data? Ambiguous silver wheelchair.) Accessibility data is live for 230 transit agencies. And if you’ve got suggestions or feedback, we’d love to access your expertise: email accessibility@transitapp.com.
  
  See you next time, amigo. Rate us 5 stars and we’ll distill the spring in the air into the spring in your step.
  
  PS: give a vitamin-c-soaked hello to Limebike-E in Seattle, as well as our new supported agencies: I-RIDE Trolley (Orlando, FL); TART (Lake Tahoe, CA); KAT (Knoxville, TN); JAC (Carson City, NV); SeaStreak (New York, NY) and Tri Delta Transit + VCC + San Francisco Bay Ferry (Bay Area, CA). We’ve also added real-time for the following agencies: EMTA (Eerie, PA); VRE (Washington, DC); ESTA (Eastern Sierra, CA); and Gunnison Valley RTA (Gunnison Valley, CO).

• 4.3.4

  Jan 16, 2018
  Two truths and a lie, Transit edition:
  
  1. We got rid of a bug where our British GPS robot “Daniel” started speaking random garbage in your ear.
  
  2. We got rid of a bug where departures were disappearing 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 66.66666% true, when it comes to transit times, we’re much, much better.

• 4.3.3

  Dec 21, 2017
  TL;DR—ho ho ho…. bug fixes.
  
  ’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 meat
  We’re embedding Bug Fixes™… in quasi-defeat.
  We’re such crowdpleasers, eh? (Our apologies, fam,
  for this empty release note-turned-poetry slam.)
  There was Scrooge on the run; and the Scrooge been seized
  Who refused to plan trips if you spoke Portuguese
  And a GOhst (naughty GOhst!) who did go on a spree
  Haunting GO stats, way back—since 1970.
  What grinches! What agents! Of bus-borne displeasure
  Now we’ve put them on ice for your bus-riding leisure.
  We’ve amended, as well, all the bad station cells
  And alarm MP3s that became jingle bells.
  Other than that… yep sorry. It’s over. We’re done.
  Shout out Alex from Texas (you asked for it, hun.)
  Please go give us five stars: send our app store rank climbing—
  Merry ho-ho to all. Now it’s time to stop rhyming ;-)

• 4.3.2

  Dec 14, 2017
  Relax. Sit back. Make yourself a snowstorm margarita. Eat a carrot. Build a gingerbread house. See if you can fit down your chimney. Anything it takes to get into the holiday spirit. But whatever you do, make sure to join us in a toast to the elves at Transit. They’ve powered billions of rides in 2017. Since Santa needs their help to power his sleigh on December 24th, they’ve worked overtime to get you your presents early. Without further ado...
  
  ALL-NEW PROFILE VIEW: it’s not just mom’s bad turkey we’re sharing this holiday season—say hello to your bikeshare, carshare, rideshare accounts. All in one place, because you mobility mavericks needed an easier way to manage your myriad profiles. To access Profile View, just tap the gear icon in the top-right corner. Profile View will show your GO crowdsourcing stats in select markets, along with any “Favourited” transit lines. You can manage those favourites—and corresponding alarms and service alerts—inside Profile View. So what? You’ve got all your mobility accounts, plus transit, all in one easy-to-manage spot. What could possibly come next...
  
  JUST-AS-NEW SETTINGS: After you hit the gear icon (for Profile View) slide on over to the next tab: Settings. Here, you can find and edit all of your saved locations (home/work/gym/reindeer stables) for easier trip planning. We’ve also grouped transit modes more intelligently, with public transit modes (and other modes) each grouped together. You’ve always been able to toggle off certain modes you don’t use (like Uber, or suburban buses) so they stop cluttering your screen. But now you can toggle them on/off so fast you’ll feel like you’re in the Matrix or something.
  
  BRANCHES: you can’t decorate them… but you can ride them: our slick branch cards are now available in ~all~ markets for ~all~ applicable transit lines. If your line has multiple stop patterns (some trips end at Stop X, while others end at Stop Y) we’ll tell you where each branch is going—and what time they’re coming—without having to tap anything. Save your taps for dance class, cutie.
  
  BIKESHARE: added support for prepaid plans in select markets. Because we all know bikers like to be early for things. Like green lights.
  
  And last but not least, the start of our twelve days of holiday bug fixes:
  
  -Took out the lag when you swipe between station cells
  -Implemented complicated fix for complicated stop list bug
  -Killed the timebar bug with a crowbar codec
  -X’d out our iPhone X image sizing issues
  -Our seasonal Tim Cookies no longer taste like asphalt
  -Added VoiceOver support for ridesharing trips
  -Fixed the meta-bug that inserts itself into release notes
  -META-BUG: haha no you didn’t
  
  For other bug discoveries, last-minute wishlist modifications, or virtual eggnog donations to our team, we’re on Twitter at @transitapp. And don’t forget to rate us five stars—we’ll put them on top of our tree ;)

• 4.3.1

  Nov 2, 2017
  Just when you thought all we did was kill bugs. Just when you thought “I haven’t heard from Transit in a while…” Just when you thought your deepest, darkest Transit fantasies couldn’t be satisfied. We pull a Beyoncé. Surprise surprise. Time for Transit 4.3.
  
  *cue heart-pounding German techno music* mmmptzz mmmptzz mmmtpzz mmmtpzz…
  
  Uber addicts. We know you’re out there. Cruising around the city, night after night, taking five-star ride after five-star ride. For those times when you’re feeling a little bougie: we’ve added native Uber integration. No more switching apps. You can request rides, pick cars, and watch your vehicle approach—all within Transit. Don’t want to see Uber? Disable it in the settings. You are the master of your own transportation destiny.
  
  What else is new? One of our most requested features: expandable stop lists in GO. No more “10 stops remaining… 9 stops remaining…”Instead of just giving you the number of remaining stops—we’ll give you their actual names! Expand the list of stops with a single tap. Like you were probably trying to do already, but now… it actually works?
  
  HOLLYWOOD!!! And other less famous Los Angeles neighbourhoods…. We started crowdsourcing real-time for LA Metro with our partners, Swiftly (@SwiftlyInc). Press GO, get real-time updates on when to leave/disembark, generate better predictions for fellow riders, make sure Millennial Daniel Day Lewis doesn’t miss his big audition…
  
  ...for a part in Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest drama: There Will Be Bikes! Set in Seattle and DC, the two first cities to get dockless bikeshare support. Find all the dockless bikes on the map: Spin, LimeBike, ofo, Mobike, Jump. To unlock a bike, just tap the pin (on the map) or the “Get Bike” button (in the trip planner).
  
  **We also added support for the fancy folks with an iPhone X. No more intruding bezel, ruining your day. Now the bezel knocks beforehand—and no longer obscures important Transit info. Stay tuned for our next iPhone X feature: customer support via Animoji.**
  
  So if you have recently tweeted us, emailed us, or quietly prayed to the transit gods about any of the following bugs…
  
  -non-existent search results
  -weird/funky trip planner timebars
  -overly-short release notes
  
  …this update has got you covered.
  
  For additional bug fixes, feature requests, or German techno remixes, hit us up @transitapp. And rate us five stars: a small consolation for giving up our dreams of Hollywood stardom to focus on writing blockbuster release notes.

• 4.3

  Oct 31, 2017
  Just when you thought all we did was kill bugs. Just when you thought “I haven’t heard from Transit in a while…” Just when you thought your deepest, darkest Transit fantasies couldn’t be satisfied. We pull a Beyoncé. Surprise surprise. Time for Transit 4.3.
  
  *cue heart-pounding German techno music* mmmptzz mmmptzz mmmtpzz mmmtpzz…
  
  Uber addicts. We know you’re out there. Cruising around the city, night after night, taking five-star ride after five-star ride. For those times when you’re feeling a little bougie: we’ve added native Uber integration. No more switching apps. You can request rides, pick cars, and watch your vehicle approach—all within Transit. Don’t want to see Uber? Disable it in the settings. You are the master of your own transportation destiny.
  
  What else is new? One of our most requested features: expandable stop lists in GO. No more “10 stops remaining… 9 stops remaining…”Instead of just giving you the number of remaining stops—we’ll give you their actual names! Expand the list of stops with a single tap. Like you were probably trying to do already, but now… it actually works?
  
  HOLLYWOOD!!! And other less famous Los Angeles neighbourhoods…. We started crowdsourcing real-time for LA Metro with our partners, Swiftly (@SwiftlyInc). Press GO, get real-time updates on when to leave/disembark, generate better predictions for fellow riders, make sure Millennial Daniel Day Lewis doesn’t miss his big audition…
  
  ...for a part in Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest drama: There Will Be Bikes! Set in Seattle and DC, the two first cities to get dockless bikeshare support. Find all the dockless bikes on the map: Spin, LimeBike, ofo, Mobike, Jump. To unlock a bike, just tap the pin (on the map) or the “Get Bike” button (in the trip planner).
  
  Lastly... if you have tweeted us, emailed us, or quietly prayed to the transit gods about any of the following bugs…
  
  -non-existent search results
  -weird/funky trip planner timebars
  -overly-short release notes
  
  …this update has got you covered.
  
  For additional bug fixes, feature requests, or German techno remixes, hit us up @transitapp. And rate us five stars: a small consolation for giving up our dreams of Hollywood stardom to focus on writing blockbuster release notes.

• 4.2.9

  Oct 2, 2017
  There was this thing we forgot to do and now we did it and now things that didn’t work before, do.

• 4.2.8

  Sep 21, 2017
  Just when you thought there was no room for improvement. We went and turned it up to 11.
  
  Yeah. iOS 11.
  
  Our engineers have been spawn-killing a bunch of iOS 11 bugs before the update goes live: say goodbye to that weird map alignment bug—before you even had time to say hello. Or the other one that made the map go grey if you scrolled too much. (Sorry, “Touch of Grey”, this scalp stays green whether you like it or not.)
  
  In more iOS 11 map news: highways go buh-byeway in this version of Transit. Which means less wide yellow roads, less highway shields, more room for our sexy transit maps. (Somebody send us a pick axe. We’ll pluck out those highways for real.)
  
  What else? It’s now easier to buy bikesharing passes. Forms are easier to fill—your keyboard will suggest stuff like “first name” and “phone number” so you can get a bike faster. Content yourselves with this minor improvement as we plot out much bigger ones in an update to come.
  
  PS: if you have a second, rate us five stars! We need 1000 to get the new iPhone.

• 4.2.7

  Aug 28, 2017
  Meanwhile in California at the Tesla shareholder meeting….
  
  ELON: and now introducing…
  FANBOY: flying buses?
  ELON: …the moment you’ve all been waiting for…
  FANBOY: oh my god he’s gonna announce flying buses
  ELON: something that will make Tesla stock truly “take off”
  FANBOY: [distressed breathing]
  ELON: [takes off Elon Musk mask to reveal the face of Joe, Transit's release notes writer]
  JOE: MORE CROWDSOURCING BUG FIXES!
  
  Rate us five stars to make the bus go higher than Tesla stock.

• 4.2.6

  Aug 3, 2017
  Meanwhile in California at the Tesla shareholder meeting….
  
  ELON: and now introducing…
  FANBOY: flying buses?
  ELON: …the moment you’ve all been waiting for…
  FANBOY: oh my god he’s gonna announce flying buses
  ELON: something that will make Tesla stock truly “take off”
  FANBOY: [distressed breathing]
  ELON: [takes off Elon Musk mask to reveal the face of Joe, Transit's release notes writer]
  JOE: MORE CROWDSOURCING BUG FIXES!
  
  Rate us five stars to make the bus go higher than Tesla stock.

• 4.2.4

  Jul 11, 2017
  Why write release notes when you can play Hangman?
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  M_NOR CRO_DSOURC_NG BUG F_XES
  
  Tweet us your letter guesses @transitapp. Or rate us five stars if you just wanna hang ;)

• 4.2.3

  Jul 6, 2017
  We recently tried to get around New York City. We had an existential transit crisis in New York City. Today we’re introducing some changes— just for you, New York City.
  
  Brooklynites! Manhattadors! Queensians! Bronxophiles! Those rare, upstanding citizens of Staten Island!
  
  We know the MTA is certifiably-flippin-bonkers this summer. We feel your pain. We know your struggle. On our monthly jaunts to NYC we bless ourselves thrice before taking the subway and can only imagine what it's like, riding it every day. New Yorkers: You are resilient. You are incorrigible. You are FAST-LIVIN, DREAM-CHASIN, SKYSCRAPER-ERECTIN’ AMERICAN BEAUTIES!
  
  So leave it to us Canadians to provide you with your daily dose of transit relief, eh.
  
  Step 1: any time there are weekend subway disruptions (aka always) check our trip planner. We incorporate all those crazy MTA service changes into our app so you’re never sent on goose chase to The Rockaways.
  
  Step 2: Today we're launching crowdsourced data on MTA buses. To all those lettered line subway riders: we’ve been crowdsourcing your subway data for a while. Well now we're in the bus business too.
  
  Whenever you use “GO”, you’ll be broadcasting super-precise vehicle locations all the way down your line. With GO enabled, you help generate better, faster, more accurate ETAs than the MTA’s own system. Because your transit data should be updated in New York minutes—not New Orleans ones. (Still love you NOLA.)
  
  Thousands of you swashbuckling subway riders already press “GO” every day. Now, NYC’s bus surfers can finally join your heroic ranks. (You can now crowdsource OCTA buses in Orange County, CA too—if you want to do some actual surfing.)
  
  New Yorkers: rate us five stars to tell Governor Cuomo to FIX THE DANG SUBWAYS!!!
  Everyone else: rate us five stars to tell your Governor to BUILD SOME DANG SUBWAYS!!!
  
  More GO crowdsourced goodness coming to your city soon—don't despair. Questions? Hit us with a tweet @transitapp.

• 4.2.2

  Jun 28, 2017
  Misconception: Iceland is full of ice
  
  Fact: Iceland is
  -10% ice
  -70% grass
  -9% Björk
  -100% supported in Transit
  
  Halló Reykjavík! We now support public transit and unlockable bikeshare for all you biking vikings.
  
  “But what if I don’t have viking blood coursing through my veins?”
  
  Fear not, noble bus-taker. For we hath made it easier to set Home + Work locations from the search screen AND removed those vexing 5 hour walks from the trip planner.
  
  Rate us 5 stars to get the Sigur Rós translation of these notes.
  
  (Or tweet us @transitapp if any bugs have invaded your homestead.)

• 4.2.1

  Jun 9, 2017
  -Last update wasn’t updating on iTunes
  -Fixed. Sorry to everyone affected*
  *Except for “Eric99” who called us the “the biggest giantest stupidest idiots who ever walked the surface of the Earth.”
  -Eric, come on. We don’t walk the surface of the Earth. We take the subway.
  
  ==============
  
  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.)
  
  Now pick: Which will get you home the fastest? Because you’ve already spent too much time at the bar tonight, drinking spruce beer and soda pops, and now you’re late for your phone call. (Nature is calling.)
  
  INTRODUCING: BIKESHARE+WALKING TRIP PLANNER
  
  Pick the best mode for any moment. Starting today, whenever you plan a trip, you’ll see ETAs for bike/bikeshare and walking too. (Yes. Finally.) If a long, boring, bladder-testing transit transfer will take longer than biking, we’ll guide you to the nearest bikeshare station. We’ll also give you a-to-b directions to the station closest to your destination. And reminder: in select cities, you can even buy passes and unlock your bikeshare from within Transit—because deep integrations are our thing.™ Unlockable bikes now work in DET, CHI, MTL, TOR, and the following unabbreviatable cities: Louisville, Columbus, Aspen, Minneapolis and Chattanooga.
  
  Biking not your style? The trip planner also lets you compare transit and biking with non-pedal bipedal transport. For those who know what boots were made for.
  
  ALSO NEW: BRANCH CARDS!
  
  Because some transit lines are complex. Maybe they share the same trunk, but stop at different stops (a-to-b-to-c vs. a-to-c) or they end up going to different end-of-line stations (like Boston’s green line, which shoots off into separate B/C/D/E branches). Now in nearby mode, we’ll group together all those different branches into one card, just like you’d see on the departure board at your station. Does this sound hopelessly complicated? No need, bruh—tap the schedule view for your line (clock icon) and enter your destination stop. We’ll tell you which trains, at which times, will get you where you want to go. Easy peasy! Now live in Boston and SF, but don’t worry—you’ll all get your own special cards soon enough.
  
  Lastly: (1) bikeshare/walking/Uber results in the trip planner are slimmer than transit, (2) you can now opt out of promo push notifications, (3) wow you are looking fabulous, and (4) we replaced our FAQ with a Help section. It was written by Michelle and Katie, our resident transit oracles, and will illuminate Transit’s deepest, darkest secrets. Like how to use our features. Where the dead bugs go. Or what Julien does with the widget in his free time.
  
  Rate us five stars to help us get a restraining order for the widget.
  
  
  PS, say hi to us on twitter! We read all your tweets :) @transitapp
  
  PPS, lots of new agencies too: Bustang (Denver, CO), SLE (Southeastern CT), MSTCA (Monterey, CA), GCTGA (Gwinnett County, GA), MAECA (Modesto, CA), and CET (Bend, OR). We’ve also added real-time for PSTA (St. Petersburg, FL), Fairfax Connector (Fairfax, VA), PACE (Chicago Suburbs), Torrance Transit (South Bay L.A., CA), Magic School Buses (worldwide), Sonoma County Transit (Sonoma County, CA) and CET (Bend, Oregon—a place our data team apparently loves.) See you next time!

• 4.2

  Jun 6, 2017
  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.)
  
  Now pick: Which will get you home the fastest? Because you’ve already spent too much time at the bar tonight, drinking spruce beer and soda pops, and now you’re late for your phone call. (Nature is calling.)
  
  INTRODUCING: BIKESHARE+WALKING TRIP PLANNER
  
  Pick the best mode for any moment. Starting today, whenever you plan a trip, you’ll see ETAs for bike/bikeshare and walking too. (Yes. Finally.) If a long, boring, bladder-testing transit transfer will take longer than biking, we’ll guide you to the nearest bikeshare station. We’ll also give you a-to-b directions to the station closest to your destination. And reminder: in select cities, you can even buy passes and unlock your bikeshare from within Transit—because deep integrations are our thing.™ Unlockable bikes now work in DET, CHI, MTL, TOR, and the following unabbreviatable cities: Louisville, Columbus, Aspen, Minneapolis and Chattanooga.
  
  Biking not your style? The trip planner also lets you compare transit and biking with non-pedal bipedal transport. For those who know what boots were made for.
  
  ALSO NEW: BRANCH CARDS!
  
  Because some transit lines are complex. Maybe they share the same trunk, but stop at different stops (a-to-b-to-c vs. a-to-c) or they end up going to different end-of-line stations (like Boston’s green line, which shoots off into separate B/C/D/E branches). Now in nearby mode, we’ll group together all those different branches into one card, just like you’d see on the departure board at your station. Does this sound hopelessly complicated? No need, bruh—tap the schedule view for your line (clock icon) and enter your destination stop. We’ll tell you which trains, at which times, will get you where you want to go. Easy peasy! Now live in Boston and SF, but don’t worry—you’ll all get your own special cards soon enough.
  
  Lastly: (1) bikeshare/walking/Uber results in the trip planner are slimmer than transit, (2) you can now opt out of promo push notifications, (3) wow you are looking fabulous, and (4) we replaced our FAQ with a Help section. It was written by Michelle and Katie, our resident transit oracles, and will illuminate Transit’s deepest, darkest secrets. Like how to use our features. Where the dead bugs go. Or what Julien does with the widget in his free time.
  
  Rate us five stars to help us get a restraining order for the widget.
  
  
  PS, say hi to us on twitter! We read all your tweets :) @transitapp
  
  PPS, lots of new agencies too: Bustang (Denver, CO), SLE (Southeastern CT), MSTCA (Monterey, CA), GCTGA (Gwinnett County, GA), MAECA (Modesto, CA), and CET (Bend, OR). We’ve also added real-time for PSTA (St. Petersburg, FL), Fairfax Connector (Fairfax, VA), PACE (Chicago Suburbs), Torrance Transit (South Bay L.A., CA), Magic School Buses (worldwide), Sonoma County Transit (Sonoma County, CA) and CET (Bend, Oregon—a place our data team apparently loves.) See you next time!

• 4.1.6

  Apr 10, 2017
  NEW: tweaked a thing!!!
  NEW: added a gizmo!!!
  NEW: fixed a pixel!!!
  NEW: okay we admit it there isn’t much in this update except for bug fixes we’re sorry
  
  Except for our lucky lettered line subway riders in NYC... to all y’all good samaritans crowdsourcing your vehicle locations with GO, we’ll now show your monthly + lifetime stats on how many riders you’ve helped. Just tap the big green smiley button in the top left. We’ll also show you what your GO crowdsourcing rank is (!!!) since some of you aren’t happy just being “good samaritans.” You’ve gotta be the best samaritans.
  
  At any rate, that’s all for this update! Thanks for your patience. Enjoy the bug fixes and rate us five stars if you believe in unconditional love.
  
  (And if your love is conditional, please rate us five stars and leave your conditions in the comments.)
  
  Love you always,
  Transit.