myTransit - Boston app for iPhone and iPad
4.7 (
4887 ratings )
Travel
Navigation
Developer:
Livespark
0.99 USD
Current version:
1.7, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 11 Jan 2010
App size: 1.53 Mb
myTransit gives you easy access to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s real time tracking system from any iPhone or iPod Touch with network access. With myTransit you can quickly find out when your bus will be arriving to any stop you choose.
**Note currently the MBTA only makes the following routes available for real time access: 1, 4, 15, 22, 23, 28, 32, 39, 57, 66, 71, 73, 77, 111, 114, 116, and 117
Features:
• For all available bus routes, see what buses will be arriving
• See any route tracked real time on google maps
• Lookup any stop by route
• Mark any bus stop as a “favorite” allowing you to quickly access
• Map the stops closest to you and scroll/zoom the map to find more stops
• See the map location of any bus stop
For questions, feature request, and bug reports please visit our forums: http://forums.livespark.com/eve/
Pros and cons of myTransit - Boston app for iPhone and iPad
myTransit - Boston app good for
I ride the 39 all the time, and this is super handy. No more waiting at cold bus stops for buses that never come! The fifth star will come when they fix some bugs.
I dont understand all the negative reviews. Works just fine for me (39 bus). The t only has a few routes available for tracking as of this writing but of course this app will become more useful once they make more routes available.
It comes with a live bus map, which is a wonderful and useful feature and is missing in other similar apps. However, it is somehow slow and crashes sometimes. It also doesnt show the correct direction of the bus on the road, and I hope this gets fixed in next updates.
Some bad moments
I deleted this app within 5 minutes of installing it. It has a terrible interface; and the overabundance of useless buttons is confusing.
For only 99 cents you can buy "CATCH THE BUS" which is clean, neat, and has the exact same info, but its layed out in an easy to navigate interface. Hooray!!!
Ad the route 52 and a lot of others useless unless u add routes
Excellent app.. I have paid 4 $ for mass transit for a copy paste from mtba web page.. With one free app I found the most important thing for me.. Live track of bus 39 !!!
Downloaded two weeks ago to track 77. Refresh works only sometimes, app crashes regularly, buses appear on map only sometimes, often indicates bus is at the stop NOW but no bus in sight for minutes. Im giving up and deleting. Dont waste your buck. Use the FREE "next bus" feature on MBTAs website instead.
This app worked fine at first...good accuracy, easy enough to use, only a few quirks.
But over the last few months the interface has broken down. Among other things, I can no longer find my nearest stop via the map (which makes it almost useless). Im giving up on it, just downloaded a different app.
As of July 2013, the app tells me that no busses are approaching my faved Boston stops for the #1 Bus line, even when buses are in view just down the street. This bug seems to not apply to Cambridge stops of the same bus line. Perhaps the MBTA has changed how it distributes the data and the app needs to be updated. As it is now myTransit has become unusable for me, so Im going to try other apps that track T busses.
