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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
This was great until it wasn’t
I’ve had this app for years, I loved it. It’s simple with a clean design that doesn’t distract and the bookmarking option made finding my regular routes easy. I don’t have a car and it’s nice to have a rough guesstamate when my bus is coming or if it’s late/early via gps from the bus.
Until last month when it stopped using gps in my city with no warning or notice from the developers. Not all cities, just mine. And the arrival/departure times are wrong now too. I’ve missed buses and had to wait in the cold.
I got a different app, but I don’t like that one as much, and the developers somehow gamified it which I find distracting and annoying.
I wish this app worked like it used to, but I can’t even report the problem because that feature is gone too.Show lessAnnoyed and frustrated 2
I just want a route…
When I download any application to get me from point A to point B I expect that I can search where I want to go and a route is built; preferably with all my various options. This app doesn’t seem do that. I search an address and it just tells me nearby bus stops from all directions. That isn’t useful information. I just want to know how best to get there from where I currently am.Show lessJwbowyer
Don’t upgrade to this, you lose features
The app kept spinning so I upgraded and now I regret it. This version doesn’t seem to let u set “reminders” for your upcoming bus on the bookmarks page even tho the app preview shows that as a feature. The bookmarks overall have a different format & it lacks the detail I had before. I haven’t yet checked how the map feature works, hopefully not much has changed.Show lessdolphn4u
KC Metro is garbage
In theory this app works well, however, since King County Metro is utterly unreliable, filthy, incompetent, and poorly run in every way, busses which supposedly have GPS regularly disappear into thin air rather than arriving when they are shown to be. Nothing is ever on time and you will end up standing at a bus stop dodging criminals and drug addicts while your bus is nowhere to be seen. Skip the app, skip Metro, and move to a decent state that isn’t a dumpster fire being run into the ground.Show lessseattleshell
Used to be a good app.
Been using this app for years with no issues whatsoever. I don’t know what happened, but as of recently, the buses I take to get home either display that they’re arriving early, then show up late, or claim to be late, then show up early. In addition to that, the UI displays multiple buses and this isn’t only confusing, but overall frustrating.
Hate to say it, but if I find another transit app that’s at least more accurate than OneBusAway, then that’s what I’m sticking with. It’s a shame this app has diminished in quality.Show lessABronxTale
Not totally stable.
Ever since iOS 16 the app crashes when trying to type in things like stop numbers or names. Sometimes if you reinstall the app it will hold stable for a little while then act up again and crash trying to search. If you press a number the app crashes. I’m on an iPhone 13 mini with iOS 16.1 but problem has been there since iOS 16 and even with the beta builds.Show lessrmx888
App broken, won’t open
Phone: iPhone 11 Pro
iOS: 16.0
Behavior: App crashes ~1 sec after opening.
I moved recently and was encountering buggy behavior when I was updating my favorite stops/routes. Also noticed the widget stopped loading information. Uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and now it won't even open, just crashes out after about a second. Unclear if this is an app issue or a server side issue since San Diego "MTS self-hosts on a single Windows server." 🤦♂️Show lessContemporary SD Commuter
