<story><title>Citymapper Joins Via</title><url>https://content.citymapper.com/news/2582/citymapper-joins-via</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>folkrav</author><text>Just chiming in with another option. May have been cause they are Montreal based, but back when I still lived there and regularly used public transport, Transit[1] was my favorite.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;transitapp.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;transitapp.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>hnarn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always loved Citymapper, it made using public transport when living in a new city a breeze. It&amp;#x27;s really sad they don&amp;#x27;t support my current city, I&amp;#x27;d be willing to put in free work to make it happen but I&amp;#x27;ve never seen any way of helping out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valarauko</author><text>Transit&amp;#x27;s UI is superior to any other comparable app, but I find CityMapper&amp;#x27;s routes superior (at least in NYC).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also had issues with Transit surfacing incorrect bus routes based on cancelled buses (but scheduled) which CityMapper somehow could account for. Transit knows the next scheduled bus two minutes away isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; (icons are different) but still surfaces it as a primary suggestion, while Citymapper wouldn&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>
<story><title>Citymapper Joins Via</title><url>https://content.citymapper.com/news/2582/citymapper-joins-via</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>folkrav</author><text>Just chiming in with another option. May have been cause they are Montreal based, but back when I still lived there and regularly used public transport, Transit[1] was my favorite.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;transitapp.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;transitapp.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>hnarn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always loved Citymapper, it made using public transport when living in a new city a breeze. It&amp;#x27;s really sad they don&amp;#x27;t support my current city, I&amp;#x27;d be willing to put in free work to make it happen but I&amp;#x27;ve never seen any way of helping out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clairity</author><text>i use transit in LA (where it&amp;#x27;s the default app for metro) and it has a huge glaring UX failure in that the departure times list at the bottom of the line details screen takes up at least a 1&amp;#x2F;3 of the screen, and when you want to see more of the map and try to push the list down, it closes the details screen. it&amp;#x27;s so frustrating, because i end up doing this 2-3 times per use, needlessly tapping back and forth. there&amp;#x27;s already a close button available so scroll to bottom to dismiss is wholly unnecessary. the departure times list wastes a ton of precious screen real estate as well - it could simply be a comma-delimited list on one line that could scroll sideways, and thus obviating the need for 1&amp;#x2F;3 of the screen for mostly whitespace.&lt;p&gt;i do like that the departure times are (slightly) more accurate because of the crowd-sourcing. however, the underlying data from metro is a mess, so they end up looking bad anyway because trains and buses still show up (or don&amp;#x27;t) unexpectedly due to metro&amp;#x27;s unreliable data.</text></comment>