Valley Metro Reviews: Is It Legit?

Valley Metro
Valley Metro
REGIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY

Customer Experience

Positive experience25.3% of reviews
Neutral8.4% of reviews
Negative experience66.2% of reviews

~ Based on 154 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Valley Metro

Is Valley Metro Safe?

Valley Metro appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Valley Metro is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 10,267 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 10,257 App Store ratings for Valley Metro.

Is Valley Metro Legit?

Valley Metro appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Valley Metro is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

This app is terrible and lies to you

It never comes when it say it will the bus app literally tells u wht time it should come and the bus come ten minutes early or late do not use this app if u want accurate schedules

Annoying QR Code Delay

Occasionally, the QR code fails to pop up, despite repeated presses of the icon, which leads to stressful situations during fare inspection (on the light rail) or code scanning (on the bus). Quitting and restarting the app seems to fix the issue, and the QR code displays after a couple more seconds of delay.
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Useless

Y’all can’t get a damn app to work right yet you have time to be posting on TikTok get in gear and get it right or hand the company over to someone who will. Getting to the money I PUT ON IT should not take me 20 damn minutes.

never accurate & always incosistent

this app is never accurate to the schedule and always skips routes without informing you the route is skipped.

Inaccurate tracking

Hi I’ve been using the app to track bus locations and how far they are from my stop but everytime I look it tells me it still at the same stop for long periods of time and refreshing the app doesn’t work either. I’ve already missed two buses because of this and I would really like if the tracking wasn’t so laggy or inaccurate.
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I like this app

I like it because I like the light real and I take it for the ticket

Get yourself a car

Extremely unreliable

Problematic

As of late this app has said bus and rail stops no longer exist and I can’t coordinate my route to work so I can be on time.

Need to work without Wi-Fi

I couldn’t go to work today because when the Wi-Fi on phone went out I couldn’t see my balance or the barcode so meaning I can’t get on the bus

THEY KICKED ME OUT

So I recently had a problem so I was on my way to work and I go onto the app and it kept saying “unable to load” and mind you I put 20$ onto that account and i logged out and reset my password now it’s saying “We Encountered a problem “ and now I can’t log in!

Valley metro

How in the world does this app almost have 5 stars? This app is horrendous. It never works there’s been so many times where I try to pay by scanning the QR code and it doesn’t work and it happens so damm often, and no it’s not that I don’t have the app updated.

Combine copper card.

Valley Metro has their own system to add funds, but it’s not connected to the copper card which has its own ledger for funding. This is confusing and ridiculous. They need to combine the two or get rid of one of them. Terrible customer service. Those people were clueless.

Overly complex

Downloaded the app to purchase two 1-day light rail tickets, $4 each. I need to get in at central and Camelback and go to Roosevelt. Then later, take that trip in reverse. Instead of having a simple place to purchase a ticket, the app forced me to plan a route, which I don't need. Then there is no obvious option to upgrade to an all day pass. I assume I would need to "plan" my return. On top of that, there was no obvious way to buy two tickets. Im sure all the planning options are help for some people who don't know where they are going. They need to make a simple purchase option for those of us who simply want to just quickly buy a ticket.
Save you time, skip the app, and buy your light rail pass at a kiosk!
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Terrible

Worst app for the worst transportation system of any large state. It’s exactly like the culture of AZ CHIP imitations of real meccas using observations made while dehydrated in the middle of the desert.

Qr Code Scanner

Yall really need to fix the qr code machine I ride the bus EVER WEEKDAY after school and it doesnt even scan almost all the time. Ive went to the website to see what to do if it doesnt work and nothing works. Ive gotten straight attitude from half of the bus drivers about it and its getting ridiculous. Please fix this
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Device limit

DONT GET A NEW PHONE AN SIGN INTO YOUR Account THEY WILL LOCK YOU OUT YOUR ACCOUNT
WITH MONEY STILL ON THERE

How to pay for 2 tickets?

The ability for one user to pay for 2 tickets is not available any more? This makes using the app untenable for those of us who prefer to pay and have all the light rail passes for the group we are traveling with. Also, every other train system I’ve ever taken has a “next train arrives in xxx minutes”, nowhere to be found in app or at the stations, we waited 30 minutes and ended up driving to our destination as the train never arrived.
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Problem with bus time

I'm a student and it really bothers me when the bus on 27th Ave, Camelback 5:56 a.m. never comes on time, the app is supposed to say that they will pass and sometimes they never pass or pass too late. The solution is that they should really pass on time and not be delayed as much as half an hour. Good morning.
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Everything

I’ll focus on the most aggravating issue as a daily paying passenger. And that’s the fare-checking “system” they have in place.

Why do we need to prove we’ve paid to these “security guards” every other stop?! We paid already! The passengers hate it. There’s needs to be a less intrusive method. Keep ONE guard on ONE train and check the new riders as they board. Problem solved- no need to continuously harass passengers who’ve already paid and been checked.
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Get your bus schedules right

I’m honestly getting tired and annoyed of how the app says there’s a bus schedule at a certain time for my route and then i have to wait 30 minutes for the next stop because they don’t know how to get their app working right