GREAT app unless want GPS off
I have used this app for years. I have found it to be excellent.
Currently have two issues with it, which to my great surprise have never changed.
(1) the app is set up so that it will show buses that have gone past the stop you were looking at, and you do not have the option to not see them.
The best you can do is the minimal setting where it will only show buses that are 10 minutes past your stop.
Since the entire point of the app is to reveal oncoming buses in order to catch them, showing buses that are past is beyond useless and simply frustrating.
Why do they not amend it so that one at least has the option of not showing buses that I’ve gone past the stop being viewed, at all?! Utterly illogical.
(2) GPS has about four options, but none of them include excluding the use of GPS entirely. One can choose minimally to have it only come on to track the bus when it is at least 1 mile away.
But one cannot choose to not use it.
This also is illogical. Once the bus is that close, it can often be seen with one’s eyes on approach anyway.
I prefer to not have my battery drained away, pointlessly giving GPS data about a bunch of things that serves no practical immediate purpose.
Since there is nothing I can do about where the bus is, simply knowing how many stops away it is is sufficient.
The additional GPS data about specifically where it is does not help me because I am not a TriMet supervisor.
Besides, every minute away, it says the buses is a stop away. So it makes some slight mistake mistakes but three minutes away is 3 to 4 stops if “due now” is denoting the upcoming stop or not.
That right there tells me what the GPS data merely serves to duplicate.
I should have the option of turning it off.
Instead of GPS data being used when the bus is a mile away regardless of if I want it to be used or not.
Because the app does not give me the freedom to turn these things off completely, and they serve no practical purpose being turned on, I will eventually switch to another app that allows me full control.
Currently have two issues with it, which to my great surprise have never changed.
(1) the app is set up so that it will show buses that have gone past the stop you were looking at, and you do not have the option to not see them.
The best you can do is the minimal setting where it will only show buses that are 10 minutes past your stop.
Since the entire point of the app is to reveal oncoming buses in order to catch them, showing buses that are past is beyond useless and simply frustrating.
Why do they not amend it so that one at least has the option of not showing buses that I’ve gone past the stop being viewed, at all?! Utterly illogical.
(2) GPS has about four options, but none of them include excluding the use of GPS entirely. One can choose minimally to have it only come on to track the bus when it is at least 1 mile away.
But one cannot choose to not use it.
This also is illogical. Once the bus is that close, it can often be seen with one’s eyes on approach anyway.
I prefer to not have my battery drained away, pointlessly giving GPS data about a bunch of things that serves no practical immediate purpose.
Since there is nothing I can do about where the bus is, simply knowing how many stops away it is is sufficient.
The additional GPS data about specifically where it is does not help me because I am not a TriMet supervisor.
Besides, every minute away, it says the buses is a stop away. So it makes some slight mistake mistakes but three minutes away is 3 to 4 stops if “due now” is denoting the upcoming stop or not.
That right there tells me what the GPS data merely serves to duplicate.
I should have the option of turning it off.
Instead of GPS data being used when the bus is a mile away regardless of if I want it to be used or not.
Because the app does not give me the freedom to turn these things off completely, and they serve no practical purpose being turned on, I will eventually switch to another app that allows me full control.
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Awesome app
Super specific with lots of details
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Waste
Big waste of space. I can go on to trimet.org and get a better service.
So Helpful!
Amazing grassroots app; has saved my bacon and let me accurately plan trips (much better than Maps) countless times. Thank you!
