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Always been reliable (San Diego Transit)
i've never had any real serious issues with this app and have been using it since i was 16 taking the bus and trolley around SD, not sure about other locations that it covers but it's on point and a must use if your in this area, almost ten years since i have first download and used this application, definitely doesn't equate to all the bad reviews left from people, this app has saved me tons of time.Show lessonibmilssd
App Deserves More Praise
I’ve used this app on and off over the years it tends to be accurate enough in several cities I’ve lived in. Let’s be real: Even the official time estimates at the fancy bus stops are sometimes dead wrong. I just don’t want to wait 30 minutes for a bus to never show, so I can make good decisions about whether to wait or not.
And that’s what this app does. It’s an alternative to Google that is accurate enough, and Google Maps has gone kind of downhill lately itself. One Bus Away even has an Apple Watch app!Show lessSlythfox
It works. Except when it doesn't.
The basic functions are well-conceived. However:
Alerts are mostly useless. You open the information. And the first thing you get is a long string of alerts. You hit one of them, and there's likely nothing having anything to do with the bus you are waiting for. When you tap one of those, you end up with a long list of every route affected by anything.
If it's a busy stop downtown, you might have to scroll through 30 or 40 of these just to get to your current bus statuses.
Meanwhile, the current status may show that your bus is coming in real time. Then you look again, and are informed that it already left.
Is it too much to ask that an alert affecting a particular line show up on the line in question?
Sometimes you will get a "scheduled, not real time" status. Sometimes the bus comes, sometimes it doesn't. I just assumed that the bus isn't coming when I see it.Show lessBobInTheBul